Does rel=canonical fix duplicate page titles?

[askotzko]

I implemented rel=canonical on our pages which helped a lot, but my latest Moz crawl is still showing lots of duplicate page titles (2,000+).

There are other ways to get to this page (depending on what feature you clicked, it will have a different URL) but will have the same page title.

Does having rel=canonical in place fix the duplicate page title problem, or do I need to change something else? I was under the impression that the canonical tag would address this by telling the crawler which URL was the URL and the crawler would only use that one for the page title.

[AdoptionHelp]

Rel Canonical should help with the issue. You should also go into google webmaster tools and put in all your URL parameters, so the crawler has a better idea of whats going on with being able to get to a particular resource with several URL variations.

[askotzko]

Thanks! Is there a way to do similar w/ Bing?

[AdoptionHelp]

Yeah check out URL Normalization under the Indexing tab.

[Dr-Pete]

From a broader sense, in terms of Google, yes - the canonical tag will also help alleviate duplicate META data. In our system, though, I'm honestly not 100% sure - I'm going to check with the product team.

[diztinct]

Any word from the SEOMoz product team on this issue? We recently added a number of "view all" category pages within an e-commerce site that our weekly crawl report is now reporting as having duplicate titles, even though we have rel=canonical tags in place.

[Dr-Pete]

Can you private message me (via the site) and tell me the URL - I'll check the campaign and ask the team, in case we've got a bug.

[keeszorge]

Hi there,

Any news on this topic yet?
I also have a lot duplicate page titles.
Even dough we use canonical tags on the pages. Moz sees them as duplicate page titles.

Even if the search engines recognize these canonical tags and don't see those pages as duplicate page titles, I still see them in my Moz reports. Which makes it difficult to see legitimate duplicate page titles.

Any suggestions?

[Dr-Pete]

If you can direct message me which campaign you're talking about, I can take a look.

[AL123al]

Hello,

I also have a similar problem. Please can you tell me if having duplicate page titles in Moz is an issue as I also have rel= canonical in place.

Thanks