Duplicate Page Content, Indexing and Rel Canonical Just DOUBLED! Need Advice to Fix

[CelebrityPersonalTrainer]

Last Friday (Penguin 5/2.1) my website shot way off the grid and I noticed in my MOZ PRO Campaign dashboard that all of the following just doubled in numbers on my website: duplicate page content, Google indexing, and rel canonicals. I also noticed that some of my pages, images, tags and categories now added a /page/2/ or a -2. I just changed noindex for tags, but indexing for media, pages, posts, and categories. I'm currently using All In One SEO for a plugin. Any advice would be much appreciated as I'm stuck on the issue.

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[RohitPalit]

Hey Lucas,

I'd suggest you to try WordPress SEO by Yoast and no-index especially archives, tags and if possible, categories. Once they're no-indexed, search engines won't care about duplicate content. It's the duplicate content in the search engines' indexes that they care about.

You also have to look for the root of the issue - what caused the sudden rise in the number of indexed pages.

[katemorris]

What plugins have you added recently? What settings have you changed in Wordpress?

Something is causing a ton more URLs. I would worry less about the rel canonicals and more about the duplicate content. I am with Rohit and his advice, you need to noindex a ton of content including archives, tags and maybe categories. I would worry less about categories though.