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Canonical URL and Permalink is same?

by victoriamon
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Hi! folks

Hi Know that Canonical URL is the one we choose if we have different options in url says the colors id or the size id.

Eg. mysite.com?dress=jeans&&color=blue&&size=m

Something like above. So we choose a url that would be common for color and size that Canonical URL.

Permalink is url that we keep to show in the url so that our keyword appears in it and that should not change.

I just want to know whether the Canonical URL and Permalink are same stuff?
#canonical #permalink #seo #url
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    I think you are confused as to both.

    Canonical gives you a better user-friendly url, without all the extra
    database ids and whatnot.

    Permalink is just a link that will remain, well, permanently. As
    whatever database or CMS you are using puts the "first" url
    somewhere else, or in many places, the permalink can always be
    a way of arriving there.

    I suppose one could make a permalink their canonical...but that just
    might not be prudent.

    They are two different animals, used entirely for something different.

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  • Profile picture of the author deepakrajput
    No Canonical URL & Permalink both are different.
    1. We use canonical URL when my site is open in http://www. and without http:// then we use it to specify the Search Engine about my right website.
    2. While in Permalink you can set the URL according to your will, or you can say that it can be modify in SEO friendly URL.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    If the pages are simple, canonical URL and permalink may very well be the same thing. There's often just one URL per page, and no need for any fancy stuff. However, this depends on site, scenario and implementation.

    You need canonical URLs if you have the exactly same or very similar content accessible through several addresses. For example, a site I've build has their vendors available from both these addresses:
    sitename.com/partners/partner-x/
    sitename.com/partners/partner-x/?show=city-z

    The latter just injects a small navigational element that you can use to access other partners in that same city. I needed to make sure that there's no "show" parameter in the canonical no matter which URL you used to access the page.
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