Duplicate page content

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi

Crawl errors is showing 2 pages of duplicate content for my clients WordPress site:

/news/

&

/category/featured/

Yoast is installed so how best to resolve this ? i see that both pages are canonicalised to themselves so presume just need to change the canonical tag on /category/featured/ to reference /news/ ?(since news is the page with higher authority and the main page for showing this info) or is there other way in Yoast or WP to deal with this & prevent from happening again ?

Cheers

Dan

[kayintveen_MD]

Personally i no-index follow those "category" pages when they are just list pages of blog posts..
I also do this on certain e-commerce categories. Brand pages or collection pages i keep indexed. but the page where its jus another list of several products without clear added value content on them just no-index follow them!

[Dan-Lawrence]

great thanks for the info

[Dan-Lawrence]

ive just gone to do that in Yoast & changed 'No Index This Category' to 'Always No Index' but where do you add page specific 'follow' command within Yoast (if possible) ?

[kayintveen_MD]

Thats done automatically. Check the source of the page and you'll see

Good luck!

[Dan-Lawrence]

great many thanks