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Thanks Wesley - I've PM'd you.

Agree that the structure is not perfect but that should work fine still - normally the link would be closed off with /> rather than the full

Also - I didn't mention that the long URL (the one I want to be ranked) did not contain a canonical - but I've asked dev to add this in anyway.

Hi,

I've got a site that I'm working with that has 2 ways of viewing the same page - a property details page.  Basically one version if the long version:

/property/Edinburgh/Southside-Newington/6CN99V

and the other just the short version with the code only on the end:

/6cn99v

There is a canonical in place from the short version to the long version, and the sitemap.xml only lists the long version HOWEVER - Google is indexing the short version in the majority of cases (not all but the majority).

http://www.website.com/property/Edinburgh/Southside-Newington/6CN99V">

Obviously "www.website.com" contains the URL of the site itself.

Any thoughts?