Why am i still getting duplicate page title warnings after implementing canonical URLS?
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Hi there, i'm having some trouble understanding why I'm still getting duplicate page title warnings on pages that have the rel=canonical attribute.
For example:
this page is the relative url
http://www.resnet.us/directory/auditor/az/89/home-energy-raters-hers-raters/1
and
http://www.resnet.us/directory/auditor/az/89/home-energy-raters-hers-raters/2
is the second page of this parsed list which is linking back to the first page using rel=canonical.
i have over 300 pages like this!! what should i do SEOmoz GURUS?
how do i remedy this problem?
is it a problem?
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Hi Dru,
Looking at your page, it appears that you are using the wrong format for your rel=canonical tags. The tag I saw in your code was formatted as:
where it should have the format:
I think this should clear things up, but let me know if I am missed something.
http://www.resnet.us/directory/auditor/az/89/home-energy-raters-hers-raters/2
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Not specifically, but with the rel=canonical tag, it should ignore them.
Google views the canonical tag as a guideline, not necessarily a command. They do this to prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot by misusing or improperly applying the tag. It may be useful to still have pages crawled regardless of the canonical tag.
I suggest that you ignore the warnings for canonical pages and focus on the others. Perhaps SEOMoz could build some logic into their crawls to handle this in the future.
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have you had the same type of problem before?
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I wonder if the SEOMoz Crawls account for canonical tags when checking?
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