URL Canonicalization for url

[Rakesh01]

I have moved my website from http to https recently. Somewhere I read that we do need URL Canonicalization for url. Please tell me what is it and how to do it..

[fayeseom]

Canonicalization is the process of choosing and formalizing a preferred version of a URL to be indexed by search engines. The preferred URL is known as the canonical URL.

[sharonjones]

URL Canonicalization also known as "rel canonical"  is a process of telling search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page.
You can simply add rel=”canonical” tag which is enough to apply Canonicalization.

[damponting44]

We will use the tag information as provided, but we’ll also use algorithmic mechanisms to avoid situations where we think the tag was not used as intended.