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Thanks Ryan, it turns out that site along with others are using proxies to copy our content in a negative campaign. Will put into action what you said.

Thanks for all your help on this.

Thanks for your responses- yes it is implemented correctly.

Thanks David, was just looking to ensure it was the right thing to do. My understanding is that the rel next/ prev is the best practice for paginated content rather than the canonical which is for direct or near duplicates? It's always worth double checking. So fingers crossed it will not be a problem in terms of duplicate titles etc in Google with the next prev/next tag in place?

Look forward to chiming in on the form.

We set up rel=next and prev tags on paginated pages with the same title- these are still showing as having duplicate titles - why is this?

At the moment we have a html sitemap which is pulling the same h1's/ titles. How big a problem is the duplicate content issue which is medium priority in the moz pro softaware?

Would you recommend changes as sitemap page 1 - page 2 etc.

Thanks

We have a Google plus profile for our brand/ organisation which has become quite powerful. We are conscious that we don't want to miss out on local search queries so want a local page but we don't want to get rid of the company page that we have built. We are a nationwide website with one physical shop.

1. Will having a local business Google plus page and a company Google plus page be seen as duplicate or in any way negative- especially if you are posting similar/ the same links and content on both pages.

2. We also want to encourage reviews- is it possible to leave reviews on company pages or is it only though local G+ pages? There is a reviews tab but it does not seem possible to leave reviews. On the main Nike G+ page  is it possible to leave reviews or would those companies have to set up local pages for people to review?