Best practice with duplicate content. Cd

[Alexogilvie]

Our website has recently been updated, now it seems that all of our products pages look like this

cdnorigin.companyname.com/catagory/product

Google is showing these pages within the search. rather then

companyname.com/catagory/product

Each product page does have a canaonacal tag on that points to the cdnorigin page.

Is this best practice? i dont think that cdnorigin.companyname etc looks very goon in the search. is there any reason why my designer would set the canonical tags up this way?

[GPainter]

Yes it is best practice.

you can read more about it here :

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

It might not of been your designer more your CMS system that's create the pages.