Canonicals
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I dynamically generated pages using rewrite functions in wordpress (new-york, san-diego, san-francisco). All these pages look the same but with different content. yoast (seo wordpress plugin) was unaware of this and set canonicals up relating to the wordpress page used as the template page for the dynamic pages (City_home_page). so all these pages had the canonical https://dinnerdancecruises.com/City_Home_Page. using search console, i saw google indexed my site, looked at all these dynamically created pages (which is about 30 pages) and took them all in as duplicate pages. this happen sometime in april or may. I fixed this problem and set unique canonicals up for each dynamically created page. but now google is not crawling them for some reason. im not sure why its been months and these pages are not indexed. i thought to myself is it because these links end up on multiple pages? sort of like having "terms of agreement" link at the footer. every single page has that terms of agreement link. does google look at those links as duplicates and not index the page at all. this is where my issue lies. i need google to crawl regularly and see those pages with their new, unique canonicals and re-index them correctly. but it seems to save cpu resources, google feels once a thief always a thief. i could be wrong but this is why i need your suggestion. thank you.
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Hello there..
Regarding the problem you do experience with Google choosed not to crawl the pages, that was marked as duplicate content.
I don't understand how the pages can look the same but have different content? That does not make sense, either the pages are the same or they are not.
So if they have different content, they can't be the same and if google marked them as duplicate content because of canonicals. You can always ask them to recrawl the pages by creating a sitemap, make sure the new URLs are in it and then resend the sitemap in webmaster tools. Also, I would suggest you edit all the pages and change something on each of them from your WordPress administration. That will tell Google that something on the pages has changed.
I hope this was a help ...
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