Time until duplicate penalty is lifted?
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Hello,
I recently discovered that half of the pages on my site, about 3,500 were not being indexed or were indexing very very slow and with a heavy weight on them. I discovered the problem in the "HTML Suggestions" within Google's Webmaster Tools.
An example of my main issue. All 3 of these URL were showing 200 Status OK in Google.
www.getrightmusic.com/mixtape/post/ludacris_1_21_gigawatts_back_to_the_first_time
www.getrightmusic.com/mixtape/post/ludacris_1_21_gigawatts_back_to_the_first_time/
www.getrightmusic.com/mixtape/ludacris_1_21_gigawatts_back_to_the_first_time
I added some code to the .htaccess in order to remove the trailing slashes across the board.
I also properly set up my 404 redirects, which were not properly set up by my developer (when the site "relaunched" 6 months ago )
I then added the Canonical link rel tags on the site posts/entries.
I'm hoping I followed all the correct steps in fixing the issue and now, I guess, I just have to wait until the penalty gets lifted? I'm also not %100 certain that I have been penalized. I'm just assuming based on the SERP ceiling I feel and the super slow or lack of indexing my content.
Any insight, help or comments would be super helpful.
Thank you.
Jesse
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I recently raised a resubmission request with Google webmaster tools and they said it would take 2 weeks but someone would get back to us with a personal reply.
so best going through a webmaster account to be honest to check.
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