Dealing with Canonical tag in volusion

[henya]

Hi

We have an ecommerce site where we have some returns/scratch /dented products identical to the original one. The onpage content of the damaged/original is pretty much identical with the damaged just having a describing the damage. I had wanted to make a canonical tag on the damaged product to the original so it would not be a problem of duplicate content but as it is a volusion site we dont have that option - it only canonicalizes back to itself!

Any ideas what else I can do - cant really change the content much and I dont really want to deindex it so people find it?

Thanks!

[Linda-Vassily]

If you canonicalize the damaged product back to the original product, the damaged one won't be findable in search anyway, same as if you had deindexed it. In either case, people could still find it on your website.

And are you sure you cannot change the canonical? This support page seems to imply that you can.