It’s fundamental, and as a web manager, marketer, online business owner, or budding SEO... you should know the difference. If you don’t address these errors at your earliest convenience, especially on high-traffic pages, you will be disappointing me, Bonnie, and your potential customers. So now that you’ve got the scoop, next you can dig a bit deeper with a header checker tool to locate any canonicalization errors or redirect loops. These might not looks so bad on the browser, but can be bad news for bots.
Enter all your URL combos) into this status checker tool: ver over free australian email leads the redirect to check they’re all pointing to the correct URL. OK, right on moz.com!! 301s all pointing to the same location. Now that you know what we’re looking for, let’s see what happens when good sites go bad… The site below starts off great, but then we see an error, and it looks like we have two versions of the URL accessible.
See those 200 status codes? we’re all gravy, that people can access that page, buuut it’s not so great in this instance. Letting bots and humans reach your site from two URLs, like www.moz.com and moz.com at the same time, is called a "canonicalization error." Say it 5 times fast, because that’s the only fun you’ll have with a canonicalization error. Below we see a redirect chain and a canonicalization error.