Canonical for a Voting page

[marin1805]

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[GastonRiera]

Hi Marin,

I'll try to keep the answer short:

1, Voting page and its canonicals ARE NOT DUPLICATE, so those canonicals are useless. Google might honour some of them, but mostly wont carry any "authority".
2, Noindex is the play you should be pursuing here. Keep in mind that if you add a noindex in a page that has a canonical pointing out to other page, Google might end up noindexing the canonical target too.
3, I'd suggest you look at what is indexed in google, you are letting google index what should not be indexed.

• I've found quite a few 404 pages that are HTTP200. An example from https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atopg.org%2Fminecraft: https://topg.org/Minecraft/28801/. Here it should be a HTTP404.

Hope it helps.
Best luck.

[marin1805]

Hi, thanks for your reply, all makes sense, I had the same feeling regarding 1 and 2, just wanted a second opinion regarding this.

Thanks for pointing those 404 errors. I am aware , they are caused by some periodic cleanup. Some gaming servers we list get shutdown and we need remove old inactive ones to keep the top list actual.

Happy Holidays!