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    • erhansimavi
      erhansimavi last edited by

      Just inspecting my sites report and I see that I have a lot of duplicate content issues,

      not sure why these two pages here

      http://www.thecheapplace.com/wholesale-products/Are-you-into-casual-sex-patch

      http://www.thecheapplace.com/wholesale-products/small-wholesale-patches-1/Are-you-into-casual-sex-patch

      are showing as duplicate content when both pages have a clearly defined canonical url of http://www.thecheapplace.com/Are-you-into-casual-sex-patch

      Any answer would be appreciated, thank you

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      • askshopper
        askshopper last edited by

        As far as I am aware the canonical tag lets Google know that that page is the most useful and should get priority when being added to the index as Google sometimes ignores duplicate content pages, so this still does not stop the fact that it is duplicate content on your site.

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