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Yes, you're right -- they are notices, not warnings. Thanks for the response.

Do you have an answer for my #2 question?

Every page has its own rel=canonical link reference.

[1] My site development tool (XSP) has recently added the canonical reference as an auto-generated tag, so every page of my site now has it. Why is SEOmoz warning me that I have hundreds of pages of canonicals if it's supposed to be a GOOD thing?

[2] Google is still seeing the pages without the canonical tag because that's how they were indexed. Will they eventually get purged from their index, or should I be proactive about that, and if so, how?

Thanks for any input.

Follow-up questions:

[1] My site development tool (XSP) has recently added the canonical reference as an auto-generated line of code, every page of my site now has it. Why is SEOmoz warning me that I have hundreds of pages of canonicals if it's supposed to be a GOOD thing?

[2] Google is still seeing the pages without the canonical tag because that's how they were indexed. Will they eventually get purged from their index, or should I be proactive about that, and if so, how?

Thanks for any input.

I am not using a rewrite rule yet -- I was asking if there is one that would resolve this issue.

I have a similar problem, and I couldn't see a solution on the site that your link refers to. Maybe you can help?

In both SEOmoz reports and GWT I get duplicate meta descriptions and/or duplicate title tags on pages that do not physically (or logically) exist. I'm not talking about dynamically generated URLs. What I see is for a given page, several other appended pages that have no relationship to the first, like this:

/realpage1.php/anotherrealpage1.html
/realpage1.php/adifferentrealpage2.html
/realpage1.php/anotherrealpage3.php
/realpage1.php/directory/realpage4.html

Perhaps related to this issue, I discovered that if a trailing slash is entered after any URL typed into the browser (other than the home page), our custom 404 page appears, but with no CSS styling or active javascript.

I have been wondering if a rewrite rule that eliminates trailing slashes would work, but then it would never display a sub-directory's default index page, right?

I've searched all over for some help with this, to no avail. Any help will be much appreciated.

What do you mean by "The /ezine dir is still working for me"?

What do you mean by "other issues"?

I appreciate your response, but making statements like that is not very helpful.

UPDATE:
The same type of error (returning a page structure with no content and no CSS) can be replicated by adding a trailing slash to any valid URL.

This leads me to believe that there is a problem on the server. It should be serving the custom 404 page instead of junk.

I have fixed the "ezine" directory problem by doing a wildcard 301 on that directory, so you can ignore that issue.

We are experiencing issues on one of our sites that we cannot resolve. It is an issue that many sites seem to have, according to discussions within the Google Webmaster Tools forum. We have tried several of the suggestions made in that forum, without success.

We need somebody to help us resolve this:

• who has experience with this issue

• who knows exactly what is causing it

• who knows how to fix it

Definition of Problem

Location:
Google Webmaster Tools | Optimization | HTML Improvements | Duplicate meta descriptions (similar issues also appear in the same area under Duplicate title tags)

By drilling down into a listed error, we see two versions of the problem:

1. Multiple instances of the page are displayed, and appended to the URL is another URL of a page that has no relationship to the first. The screenshot also shows a directory (/ezine) that was deleted and renamed. See attached pic
   duplicatemetadescriptions1.jpg

2. Also by drilling down in the same way, some of the instances show unique URLs, but the ones listed (other than the correct one), do not exist. See attached pic
   duplicatemetadescriptions2.jpg

Please offer only KNOWN solution(s).

Thank you.

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I would also suggest buying Artisteer, which is an inexpensive template creator that is not only amazingly simple, but fun to use as well.

How about Rich Snippets?

I ran an advanced report to show me all the backlinks pointing to a domain. When I go to many of the domains listed, I can't find the link. I've searched the pages by anchor text in the browser and nothing comes up. Anyone know why this would be?