Duplicate title tags and meta description tags
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According to GWT, it seems that some of the pages on my website have duplicate title and meta tags.
The pages identified by Google are nothing but dynamic pages:
http://www.mywebsite.com/page.php
http://www.mywebsite.com/page.php?param=1
http://www.mywebsite.com/page.php?param=2The thing is that I do use the canonical link tag on all pages.
Should I also use the "robots noindex" tag when the page is invoked using a GET parameter?
Again sorry for my english.
Thank you,
Stephane
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That seems alright Stephane. Well, to be true Google Webmaster does report on duplicate titles and descriptions that have been already fixed via a canonical tag, 301 redirect or a noindex tag.
In this case, you need not be worried on the duplicates as this is well taken care of. Another step of making this clear to Google would be to resubmit the XML sitemap. Probably, Google has not revisited your dynamic page after reporting those duplicates and with the submission of the XML sitemap it will probably do so.
Cheers,
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http://www.mywebsite.com/page.php?param=1
rel="canonical" href="http://www.mywebsite.com/page.php" />
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I don't want to do that for the entire website. There are some dynamic pages that need to be indexed that way.
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Stephane,
Could you clarify on how do you use the canonical tag on the dynamic pages?
This will help answer your query better.
Cheers,
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Check that your canonical is indeed linking to the right page.
You can go into Google Webmaster Tools and specify that they need to ignore that parameter and that it is the same page.
Look under Configuration > URL Parameters
More info here
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687
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