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Thanks for your response Brady. Currently I do have self referencing canonical tags applied. Sounds as if I am alright leaving the default to index, follow, and using WMT to monitor what is being indexed. Thanks again Brady!

Hello!

I'm working with Magento 1.9 for an eCommerce site with several hundred products. Currently I understand it is best practices to use the Canonical tag, however I also have my default robots set to "Index, Follow".

Will this cause an issue having product pages set to index, follow but also having a canonical tag included?

What are some best practices regarding Magento default robots & canonical tags?

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you Ray-pp, This is very helpful.

I am sort of new to this, and working with an overseas development team on an eCommerce site. I am curious if the Canonical tag will supersede the tag, or if it is best to remove this tag entirely for duplicate product pages?

I am sort of new to this, and working with an overseas development team on an eCommerce site. I am curious if the Canonical tag will supersede the tag, or if it is best to remove this tag entirely for duplicate product pages?

Thanks for your response Brady. Currently I do have self referencing canonical tags applied. Sounds as if I am alright leaving the default to index, follow, and using WMT to monitor what is being indexed. Thanks again Brady!