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WooCommere Canonical links relating to products and subscriptions

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Hello,

Thanks for taking the time to have a read of this, I'm not quite sure of the best way to address this issue.

I have a WooCommerce site with Products and Subscriptions, i.e subscribe to buy the product monthly. Because of the way WooCommerce works these are effectively two different pages, for example:

https://formnutrition.com/plant-based-nutrition/form-superblend-plant-based-vegan-protein/

and

https://formnutrition.com/plant-based-nutrition/superblend-protein-subscription/

Since the second is just a Subscription of the first (Product) it's basically exactly the same content.

I'm not sure if I should make the canonical link of the Subscription point to the Product?

I would prefer that customers find the Product first and don't want Google to think this is duplicate content. On the other hand it's not strictly duplicate content as they are two different things?

Is there any advice or best practice on how to handle this?

Many thanks,

Damian
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