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Hey Paul,

Thanks for the response! Our site is an ecommerce site through Magento. I though we had all of the canonicalization set up correctly since we followed this article: https://moz.com/ugc/setting-up-magento-for-the-search-engines

I was under the impression that the canonicalization was encompassed in the Auto-direct to base url setting. But there is also a setting under Search Engine Optimization to enable canonical link meta tag for categories and products. Both are set to yes. Any idea why the canonical tags might not be working? Also, how can we implement the canonical tag in magento for the homepage?

Hey,

So on our site we have a Buyer's Guide that we made. Essentially it is a pop-up with a series of questions that then recommends a product. The parameter ?openguide=true can be used on any url on our site to pull this buyer's guide up. Somehow the Moz Site Crawl reported each one of our pages as duplicate content as it added this string (?openguide=true) to each page.

We already have a URL Parameter set in Google Webmaster Tools as openguide ; however, I am now worried that google might be seeing this duplicate content as well. I have checked all of the pages with duplicate title tags in the Webmaster Tools to see if that could give me an answer as to whether it is detecting duplicate content. I did not find any duplicate title tag pages that were because of the openguide parameter.

I am just wondering if anyone knows:
1. a way to check if google is seeing it as duplicate content
2.  make sure that the parameter is set correctly in webmaster tools
3. or a better way to prevent the crawler from thinking this is duplicate content

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks,

Mitchell Chapman
www.kontrolfreek.com