Duplicate pages and Canonicals
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Hi all,
Our website has more than 30 pages which are duplicates. So canonicals have been deployed to show up only 10 of these pages. Do more of these pages impact rankings?
Thanks
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Christy
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Hi,
"This is very difficult to measure, but if you use rel=canonical appropriately, and if Google honors it, then it appears to act similarly to a 301-redirect. We suspect it passes authority/PageRank for links to the non-canonical URL, with some small amount of loss (similar to a 301)."
Full article is here @ https://moz.com/blog/rel-confused-answers-to-your-rel-canonical-questions
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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Thank you. Do these pages with canonical tags take away pagerank? I think they'll pass the pagerank to referring pages. Will there be any link juice dilution?
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Ideally you don't want any duplicate pages on your site? So if you are asking do duplicates impact rankings, well it is certainly possible as that is why canonicals are deployed. If it is not malicious duplication i.e. you are not trying to dupe the search engines then it will have less of an impact. This article may help:
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