Generating an canonical automatically for mvc3 webapplication

Question

I want to use canonical url\'s in my website. I read a few things about it on the internet, but i\'m looking for a solution which will automatically generate the canonical for m

Answer 1

MVC 5 has the new option of generating lower case URL's for your routes. My route config is shown below:

public static class RouteConfig
{
    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        // Imprive SEO by stopping duplicate URL's due to case or trailing slashes.
        routes.AppendTrailingSlash = true;
        routes.LowercaseUrls = true;

        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional });
    }
}

With this code, you should no longer need the canonicalize the URL's as this is done for you. The only problem can occur if you are using HTTP and HTTPS URL's and want a canonical URL for this. In this case, it's pretty easy to use the above approach and replace HTTP with HTTPS or vice versa.