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I am building a new SEO site with a "Silo" / Themed architecture.  I have a travel website selling hotel reservations.  I list a hotel page under a city page - example, www.abc.com/Dallas/Hilton.html   Then I use that same property under a segment within the city - example www.abc.com/Dallas/Downtown/Hilton.html, so there are two URLs with the same content Both pages are identical, except I want to customize the Title and Description.  I want to customize the title and description to build a consistent theme - for example the /Downtown/Hilton page will have the words "Near Downtown" in the Title and Description, while the primary city Hilton page will not.  So I have two questions about this. First, is it okay to use a canonical tag if the Title and Description are slightly different?  Everything else is identical. If so, will Google crawl and comprehend the unique Title and Description on the "Downtown" silo? I want Google to see that I have several "supporting" pages to my main landing page(s).  I want to present to Google 5 supporting pages in each silo that each has a supporting keyword theme.  But I'm not sure if Google will consider content of pages that point to a different page using the canonical tag. Please see this supporting example:  http://d.pr/i/aQPv Thanks for your insights. Rob

I have URLs that I use for SEM ads in Google.  The content on those pages is duplicate (affiliate).  Those pages also have dynamic parameters which caused lots of duplicate content pages to be indexed.  I have put a canonical tag on the Parameter pages to consolidate everything to the canonical URL.  Both the canonical URL and the Parameter URLs have links pointing to them.  So as it stands now, my canonical URL is still indexed, but the parameter URLs are not.  The canonical page is still made up of affiliate (duplicate) content though. I want to create an equivalent SEO landing page with unique content.  But I'd like to do two things 1) remove the canonical URL from the index - due to duplicate affiliate content, and 2) transfer the link juice from the canonical URL over to the SEO URL.  I'm thinking of adding a meta NoIndex, follow tag to the canonical tag - and internally linking to the new SEO landing page.  Does this strategy work?  I don't want to lose the link juice on the canonical URL by adding a meta noindex tag to it. Thanks in advance for your advice. Rob

My website has 43,000 pages indexed by Google.  Almost all of these pages are URLs that have parameters in them, creating duplicate content.  I have external links pointing to those URLs that have parameters in them. If I add the canonical tag to these parameter URLs, will that remove those pages from the Google index, or do I need to do something more to remove those pages from the index? Ex:  www.website.com/boats/show/tuna-fishing/?TID=shkfsvdi_dc%ficol  (has link pointing here)
       www.website.com/boats/show/tuna-fishing/   (canonical URL) Thanks for your help. Rob