Using Canonicals lead to a substantial drop in traffic

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[EugeneF]

The best way for me to address this is to tell you how I would structure the products.

I would have non state specific category pages for each product.  These pages would talk about the product in general.  Within these category pages, I would have a product page for each state.  On these pages I would have content that explains what is different about that particular state.

I would have a separate category for each state.  This page would talk about the states issues in a general way.  This page would link to all the same state specific items.

document type  - document A  - Alaska docA

- Ohio docA

document B - Alaska docB

- Ohio docB

States    -Alaska  -Alaska docA

-Alaska docB

-Ohio       -Ohio docA

-Ohio docB