Duplicate content errors
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I have multiple duplicate content errors in my crawl diagnostics. The problem is though that i already took care of these problems with the canonical tag but MOZ keeps saying there is a problem. For example this page http://www.letspump.dk/produkter/56-aminosyre/ has a canonical tag, but moz still says it has an error. Why is that?
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So now i have changed the way the URL works, and today Moz crawled my site once again, but im still getting errors on pages that have a canonical example: http://www.letspump.dk/produkter/61-aminosyre/ which has a canonical that says: rel="canonical" href="http://www.letspump.dk/produkter/5-aminosyre/" > So why i am still getting Duplicate Content errors??
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Might want to double check -
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en#6
"Avoid errors: use absolute paths rather than relative paths with the
rel="canonical"link element.Use this structure:
http://www.example.com/dresses/green/greendresss.html
Not this structure:/dresses/green/greendress.html)."Also have you given enough time for Moz to recrawl your site and pick up the changes?
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I´ve just checked this with Google employee, and we are using absolute links which are working just as well, so there should be not any errors.
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You need the full url so the tag should look like-
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="http://www.letspump.dk/produkter/5-aminosyre/" >
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