Duplicate Page Due To Website Display Function

[Strateji]

Hi

Can anyone help with how I can rectify a duplicate issue? A high priority on my Moz report shows a duplicate issue however, this is due to the way the website is structured. For example. the below duplicate is created due to the website having a function to display all trips, so customers do not need to search page by page i.e:

http://www.bikecation.co.uk/categories/cycling-climbs

http://www.bikecation.co.uk/categories/cycling-climbs/page/2?showall=1

My question is, Will this format damage the SEO for this page? Is there a way to rectify? Would a canonical tag work in this case?

Many Thanks

Claire

[GPainter]

As far as i remember Moz isn't so hot on detecting canonical links and/or pagination both of which are on your site. These essentially will Stop the duplicate content that you think you are seeing so don't panic. If we're getting more technical canonical and pagination shouldn't be on the same page really but worst case one is ignored so no need to panic.

TL:DR - Moz doesn't dismiss errors like the above based on pagination / canonical so you can ignore it as you have these implemented (can you even see these if you export a report (.CSV)

Hope that helps.

[Strateji]

HI Chris

This does help, thank you. I have downloaded a CSV and it states under the REL Canonical column http://www.bikecation.co.uk/categories/cycling-climbs

Is this how it should be if implemented right?

I need to understand this report and canonical tag/duplicates in more detail. I will see if Moz has any learning guides..

Thanks for your help - Much appreciated.

[JordanRailsback]

Hi there!
While our crawler doesn't support rel="prev" or "next" tags as a means of resolving duplicate content, we do recognize canonical tags. In this case, it looks like the reason we're reporting these as duplicates is because the canonical tag on http://www.bikecation.co.uk/categories/cycling-climbs/page/2?showall=1 is pointing to http://www.bikecation.co.uk/categories/cycling-climbs/page/2 rather than http://www.bikecation.co.uk/categories/cycling-climbs.

I hope this helps!

[Strateji]

Hi Jordan

Thank you this has completely cleared things up. Thanks for your help.

Claire