Dublicate meta
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Hello, we have many dublicate meta titles and descriptions. But it shouldn't be.
dublicate examples:
Mainly all dublicates are for capital letters. but we have in such urls canonical tag with lower case urls. So why google detects as dublicates? Need your advise urgent.
Thanks
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Without examining your site I am left to guess. If you use WordPress or any other form of CMS or software, you may have pages you are not aware of. A crawl would need to be performed to discover those pages and/or relevant links. It is possible the canonical tag does not appear on those pages.
Also, keep in mind the canonical tag is a recommendation to Google. They do not always follow it. I would not recommend using the canonical tag to cover up site issues.
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All our url to pages are lower case, I don't know why google index them both. But the question was why google ignore to canonical tag?
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Many people are accustomed to Windows which streamlines a lot of computer function for us. What you want to recognize is the following:
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P and p are two different characters. When a URL is encoded, a capital P is represented by %50 and a lowercase p is represented by %70
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ANY change to the path of a URL can result in a different page
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to further confuse the matter, domain names are NOT case sensitive
Some examples:
www.site.com = wwW.site.com = www.SITE.com = www.site.cOM = WWW.SITE.COM
You can switch upper case and lower case letters freely in the domain name. That is NOT true when it comes to the file path.
www.site.com/page <> www.site.com/Page
You can present completely different content on the above two URLs.
All of the following URLs are different:
The above represents 4 unique URLs and you could provide completely different web pages on each of those URLs. If you choose on your site to present the same content on all 4 of the above URLs, that is your choice but search engines cannot assume other sites will make that same choice.
You can use Regex expressions to rewrite or redirect the URLs on your server to be consistent. If the last sentence does not make sense, speak with your web developer or host and ask them to make the change for you.
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