Help needed in solving 301 redirect and canonical issues?

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Hi, I am facing few serious issues with my website, My site's url goes like this www.example.com/application but if you type www.example.com it is redirecting. We haven't used canonical tag or 301 redirect. While doing Site health checkup I came to know that google is considering exaple.com and example.com/application as different domains. So I have to use canonical tag and 301 redirect. example.com and example.com/index.php are also considering as different sites so canonical tag is necessary. My question is, If I want to use canonical tag then which tag should i use? is it rel="canonical" href="www.example.com/" (or) rel="canonical" href="www.example.com/application" ?

I will be wating for experts reply. Please do help me.

Thank You.
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  • Profile picture of the author kishoreseo
    If you haven't use any redirection how can it will redirect, check with your developer or with hosting providers.First you need to know why it was redirecting.

    .com is up to home page and .com/application will be consider as internal page. So what is your main page, are you not looking to have home page .com. If you are not bothering about .com, then you need to go for .com/application

    If you have 301 redirect to .com/application, then not required any canonical tag, if you don't have any redirection then finalize your main url and use canonical tag in second page
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    In order for one URL to redirect to another URL, you must have some type of redirection in place. That could be a server side redirect or a client side redirect. Either way, a redirect doesn't happen by magic.
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