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Canonical URL

A tag that declares the 'official' version of a page when the same content is reachable at multiple addresses — with and without tracking parameters, under multiple categories, in filtered views. Without canonicals, search engines split ranking credit across duplicates or index the wrong version. E-commerce platforms generate duplicate URLs constantly, which makes this one of the highest-impact tags on a store.

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