Canonical for blog tag or search site

[lwflc]

Dear all,

I have problem with duplicate content on my site and crawled by seomoz as "duplicate content", might be i am not clear enough about how to put "canoncial" but the problem is with my site mostly on blog or tags or categories, so some link that actually different tags ....come with same result..so like:

http://www.livingwordfreelutheran.org/news-events/blog/tag/ Gymnastics

and

http://www.livingwordfreelutheran.org/news-events/blog/tag/ God's Power

It will show same result..the problem is,all are dynamic... and what i should put the canonical for that page? Both of link use same page or controller? If i put the canonical itself on each result it will be fix it? Or how?

…and also I confusing how I put it also on search result? Like ?query=keywords that show same result? How I put canonical on there?

Sorry if this duplicate question... I very very appreciate for the help…thank you!

Best regards,
Harrison

[renehansen]

Well, your issues are with tags and I would rather noindex them than using a canonical tag.

There are no reason for the search engines to find tag categories and it doesn't help a searcher either (on site it can be useful however).

rel="canonical" should be used for content which is similiar like a product with different attributes, a product with multiple URLs with the same content, or if you syndicate content from another site.

Remember that rel="canonical" is only good to use if you cannot hardcode your way out of it. If you can remove the need for the tag, by either removing the indexation of the tag category or making the blog function different, then that would be the deal solution.

Read about rel="canonical" here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

[lwflc]

oh Thank you René Hansen ! thanks you so much! this help me to explain too..thank you!

[renehansen]

You are welcome, I do not seem to recognize a CMS present on your site, but it should be something that your programmer would be able to fix.
On another note, your are outputting Google Analytics as well as Google Tag Manager at the same time. Beware that this might conflict with your Analytics data.

If you want to use GTM, then fire a GA tag instead of outputting it directly on the page.

[lwflc]

Oh yes...i build it custom for admin and put it on uncommon url name I decide to not index all tags url

just like you said...i will waiting for my next crawl, by the way if i do that...it will be not index by google too? because

client seems want see all url by using that google analytics? sorry i am new on this and i am very appreciate for your help René Hansen.

for conflicts..ok got it..so i better just put GTM and remove the GA tag....got it...you are the best!

[lwflc]

Sorry i got it..noindex, follow..so it still will follow..ignored my question..thanks again!

[renehansen]

Yes use noindex, follow for that