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    Can anyone see any issues with the canonical tags on this web site?

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    • IcanAgency
      IcanAgency last edited by

      The main domain is: http://www.eumom.ie/

      And these would be some of the core pages:

      http://www.eumom.ie/pregnancy/

      http://www.eumom.ie/getting-pregnant/

      Any help from the Moz community is much appreciated!

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      • Jamie.Stevens
        Jamie.Stevens last edited by

        On these pages http://www.eumom.ie/pregnancy/ the canonical is blank, though Google should ignore it. The page is indexed so it should not be an issue

        Same with http://www.eumom.ie/getting-pregnant/ the canonical is blank.

        Whether there is a problem with the canonical tag depends on whether these pages are the main pages that you want to rank for the content that they contain, if these pages do not contain duplicate content then how they are should be ok.

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        • David-Kley
          David-Kley last edited by

          If the canonical link is not set, its possible you will get additional pages indexed for the same content especially if you are using a CMS. The best course of action would be to do a site search for your domain, and see how may pages are indexed. If you know you have 200 pages on your site, and you have 2000 indexed, you most likely have some duplicates showing up. We wrote an article about avoiding duplicates through htaccess earlier this month. Might be worth a read if you have not set any of those rules for your site. CMS's (Wordpress, Joomla) can be tricky to get duplicate pages under control.

          *edit Looking at your indexed pages, you are showing 122,000 links indexed for your site. If that isn't the case, you should look into assigning canonical links for all your posts, and if they are already indexed, processing redirects. You can also use Google's URL parameter tool to help, althought this tool should be used with caution if you don't know how to use it.

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