Friday 8 February 2013

URL Canonicalization Checker Tool Review


A URL Canonicalization Checker Tool is an essential Tool for any SEO Audit. Simply because URL Canonicalization is a crucial SEO factor used when your website has more than one page having the same content, somehow.

Examples of duplicate contents:

A canonical page is the preferred version of a set of pages with highly similar content.
To Specify a canonical URL, simply Add a rel="canonical" link to the <head> section of the non-canonical version of each HTML page. For more examples on adding a rel=canonical tag check this article:

After you know what a canonical tag is and how to use it. Here is an interesting tool to check Canonical URLS: Midgets dsquare Canonical URL checker .

This German Website also have some interesting SEO Tools divided into 3 categories:


  1. Keyword Tools (Keyword Combination, Keyword Suggest, Keyword Metatag Spider, Geo Target Long Tail Keyword, Keyword density, Keyword prominence, SERP Analyzer, Keyword Grapper)
  2. Seo Checking: Page Load time, Multiple Link Checker, Code to text ratio, reverse DNS Resolve, Canonical Url checker, HTTP code checker, Words Count, Ping Search engine, URL encode and Url Decode)
  3. Site Statistics: Check indexed pages, PageRank Domains Visibility, search engines saturation, keyword competition, domain age, backlink checker, DMOZ, social bookmarks, future pagerank, yahoo directory, Wikipedia backlinks, strongest page)

Note: The Site is in German so you may need to enable Google Translate to understand it. 


Another URL Checker tool is SEO SITE CHECKUP URL Canonicalization