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    • jackaveli
      jackaveli last edited by

      So when I initially launched my website I had an issue where I didn't properly set my canonical tags and all my pages got crawled.  Now in looking at the search engine results I see a number of the pages that were meant to be canonical tagged to the correct page showing up in the results.  What is the best way to correct this issue with google?

      Also I noticed that while initially I was ranking well for the main pages, now those results have disappeared entirely and deeper in the rankings I am finding the pages that were meant to be canonical tagged.

      Please Help.

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      • firstconversion
        firstconversion last edited by

        Just place the correct canonicals on the correct urls and wait for Google to recrawl. It may take or week or more

        You can also go to webmaster tools "Health < Fetch as Google" and submit a small number of urls directly to the for asap recrawl

        Stephen

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