Using Canonical & INDEX, FOLLOW meta tag

[BretDarby]

I am sort of new to this, and working with an overseas development team on an eCommerce site. I am curious if the Canonical tag will supersede the tag, or if it is best to remove this tag entirely for duplicate product pages?

[Ray-pp]

The canonical tag is only a suggestion for the search engine to consider that page the authority page. I would remove that meta tag for duplicate pages and include a canonical tag to the authority page.

Why do you have duplicate product pages?

[BretDarby]

Thank you Ray-pp, This is very helpful.