Canonical URLs and Duplicate Page Content

[thomashillard]

My website (doctor directory) is getting a lot of duplicate page content & duplicate page title warnings from SEOmoz. The pages that are getting the warnings are doctors profiles which can be accessed at three different URLs. Problem is this should be handled by the canonical tag on the pages.

So example below, all three open the same page:

https://www.arzttermine.de/arzt/dr-sara-danesh/

https://www.arzttermine.de/arzt/dr-sara-danesh/gkv

https://www.arzttermine.de/arzt/dr-sara-danesh/pkv

Here's our canonical tag (on line 34): rel="canonical" href="http://www.arzttermine.de/arzt/dr-sara-danesh" />

So why is SEO moz crawling the page? We are getting hundreds of errors from this - and yet Google doesn't have any of the duplicate URLs indexed...

[Matt-Williamson]

Hi Thomas - dont worry - the SEOMoz crawl doesn't actually take into account your canonical tags at the moment but it is something they are looking into, so I wouldn't worry you are not the first to report this...

Have a look at this for peace of mind

http://www.seomoz.org/q/canonical-tag-and-duplicate-content-report