Blogger Duplicate Content? and Canonical Tag

[holdtheonion]

Hello:

I previously asked this question, but I would love to get more perspectives on this issue.

In Blogger, there is an archive page and label(s) page(s) created for each main post.

Firstly, does Google, esp. considering Blogger is their product, possibly see the archive and tag pages created in addition to the main post as partial duplicate content?

The other dilemma is that each of these instances - main post, archive, label(s) - claim to be the canonical.

Does anyone have any insight or experience with this issue and Blogger and how Google is treating the partial duplicates and the canonical claims to the same content (even though the archives and label pages are partial?)

I do not see anything in Blogger settings that allows altering these settings - in fact, the only choices in Blogger settings are 'Email Posting' and 'Permissions' (could it be that I cannot see the other setting options because I am a guest and not the blog owner?)

Thanks so much everyone!

PS - I was not able to add the blog as a campaign in SEOmoz Pro, which in and of itself is odd - and which I've never seen before - could this be part of the issue? Are Blogger free blogs not able to be crawled for some reason via SEOmoz Pro?

[EricaMcGillivray]

On the Blogger platform, tag pages are blocked in the robots.txt so they won't be index and thus, won't cause duplicate content issues (no matter what canonical tags they have on them). Archives seem to get around this issue by creating full html pages; thus, it doesn't show up as duplicate content, but as snippets of content on an indexing page.

Please contact our Help Team help@seomoz.org to help you add your Blogger account as a campaign.