Bigcommerce & Blog Tags causing Duplicate Content?
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Curious why moz would pick up our blog tags as causing duplicate content, when each blog has a rel canonical tag pointing to either the blog post itself and on the tag pages points to the blog as a whole.
Kinda want to get rid of the tags in general now, but also feel they can add some extra value to UX later on when we have many more blog posts.
Curious if anyone knows a way around this or even a best solution practice when faced with such odd issues?
I can see why the duplicate content would happen, but when grouping content into categories?
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This is a good answer, but the pages that the bigcommerce tags appear on with the blog posts, isn't editable , it's just aggregating the blog posts based on tags like you said, not sure how to place that nofollow tag on just those tag pages.
Almost seems like they shouldn't be an issue but are because of how bigcommerce is handling this tag process.
I don't want to put the nofollow tag on the blog posts themselves, since I want that content index so it can rank, so still kinda stuck between a tag and a hard place.
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If your tag pages only aggregate content and provide no additional content, the best bet is to use the meta robots noindex,follow tag
This will tell Google to not index the content of the page, but to follow the links on it. If you use the canonical tag, but the content is sufficiently different from the page to which it is canonicalled, Google can choose to ignore it.
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