Duplicate Content for Locations on my Directory Site

[kay_nguyen]

I have a pretty big directory site using Wordpress with lots of "locations", "features", "listing-category" etc....

Duplicate Content:

https://www.thecbd.co/location/california/

https://www.thecbd.co/location/canada/

referring URL is www.thecbd.co

is it a matter of just putting a canonical URL on each location, or just on the main page?

Would this be the correct code to put:

on the main page?

Thanks Everyone!

[MikeTek]

Hi Kay,

These two example URLs do not seem to represent duplicate content - the listings are different for each page. I wouldn't want to set canonical tags on these pages as they are unique.

Did you see an error in an SEO tool of some kind indicating there was a duplicate content problem here?

For general applications, canonical tags should be added to the duplicate page(s) themselves, and those canonical tags should refer to the preferred/canonical page that you want to keep indexed (but no changes need to be made to the preferred/canonical page itself). So if these pages were true duplicates of your homepage, each duplicate would need the canonical tag  (but the homepage itself would not need to include the canonical tag).

From your examples, I'd just caution you may not be dealing with actual duplicate content - they look like valid pages to me.

Best,
Mike