Canonical in Shop Areas of an E-commerce Site. When and Where?

[isaac663]

Hi Guys.

A quick one about duplicate content...

So we have a lot of pages that are very similar on our site, but are actually different products.

e.g)  Our Fortnight view refills and our week to view refills.

Our MOZ report defines this as duplicate content.

Question:  Would a canonical tag be the way to go to 'remove' this duplicate content?

And if so, which page should it point back to?  Just picking one of the products?  Or the higher level Landing page?

Many thanks in advance...

Isaac.

[Igor.Go]

Did you try expanding the product description to make sure that text varies more than it is now?

[LoganRay]

Isaac,

This is the same issue that I mentioned a fix for on this thread: https://moz.com/community/q/should-i-be-worried-about-our-duplicate-content

If you canonicalize product A to product B, product A will eventually drop out of search engines' index, not what you want to happen. Read through the recommendations I made on the other thread.