What Is a Canonical Tag?
A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters avoid duplicate content issues by specifying the 'canonical' or preferred version of a web page. Limecube ensures that search engines identify and rank the correct page URLs on your website by setting correct canonical tags automatically.
How Do Canonical Tags Work?
Search engines can sometimes interpret different URL variations as separate pages — for example,
limecube.co/about-us and limecube.co/About-us. Even though they display the same content, Google may treat them as duplicates. The canonical tag resolves this by telling Google which is the actual and correct URL.What a Canonical Tag Looks Like
In your page's HTML source code, the canonical tag appears as:
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.yoursite.com/about-us" />. This instructs search engines to treat the specified URL as the authoritative version of that page.On Limecube, canonical tags are set automatically for every page — you do not need to configure anything. This helps prevent duplicate content issues caused by URL variations such as capitalisation differences or trailing slashes.
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