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Hi Ruth, exactly the answer I was looking for, thank you. Great article by the way, we had already implemented a lot of what you covered there.

I guess my only problem would be finding unique content for localised landing pages. Breed specific landing pages (eg 'cocker spaniels for sale') will be fine as I can feature breed descriptions on these and the latest listings. But a little more difficult for the page 'puppies for sale in London' for example. Maybe I could feature some breeder profiles for that area.

Would you also recommend putting a no follow on the search results if we put these landing pages in?

Hi

Thanks for the quick reply. We used canonicals as a long term fix. We had duplicate content all over. You've get the url that displays every listing on the site that I posted above. Then unique URLs for different types of breed, URLs for listing type (for sale, stud, adoption) and location Etc. Obviously all these different URLs just created loads of duplicate content as one listing could appear in quite a few urls.

So we used canonical on everything to the url that displays all listings. Except for the localised URLs that we left as is. But moz sees these pages as duplicate content, as some listings appear in URLs for two locations depending on the postcode radius and all appear on the URL that displays every listing on the site.

Does tes that make things clearer at all?

Hi

Run a pet listings website and we had tonnes of duplicate content that we have resolved. But not sure what to do with the localised landing pages.

We have everything pointing back back to the main listings URL http://www.dogscatsandpets.co.uk/for-sale-stud-and-adoption/ but haven't pointed the URLs that show pets for specific towns and cities eg http://www.dogscatsandpets.co.uk/for-sale/dogs-and-puppies/in-city-of-london/ back to the main url. Obviously this is giving us duplicate content issues, but these pages do rank in local search and drive traffic into the site.

So my question is should we canonicalise the local pages back to the main url and if we do will this mean our local landing pages will no longer rank? Is there any alternatives?