Ongoing Duplicate

[Hardley111]

Hi Everyone,I'm  having some on pa duplicate URLs issue .I have spoken to our web company and they have corrected the issue last week  and I noted the amount of duplicates dropped  significantly. Ive just checked t i see it's back up (I'm following this up with our web company). Are you able to offer any insights as to why this problem seems to reoccur

I was of the understanding  this is a permanent fix so once the change has been made, I cant understand why it then seems to reoccur?. Any insights would be much appreciated.

Regards

Pete

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[crackingmedia]

Hi Pete

I would think the web company would have corrected the problem by adding rel="canonical" code to point to the correct page where duplicates occurred. The only thing I can think of is maybe the code has accidentally been removed.

You really need to check the source code of some of the reported duplicates to check to see if the canonical code is there.

Peter

[MattRoney]

Hi Pete!

Without knowing quite a bit more, I'm going to have to agree with Peter. I took a look at your account and the site, and I'm not seeing rel="canonical" anywhere on the site. If that is how your Web company initially solved the issue, it looks like it's since been removed.

I took a look at the crawl diagnostics CSV, and it looks like a lot of the issue is due to the ecommerce platform itself. This may be difficult to fix, but it also should be extremely harmful. In a lot of cases, though, it looks like there are very minor variations on the same URLs causing them to be picked up as duplicates—for example, a version of a URL with one capital letter is showing up as a duplicate version of the same URL without a capital letter. Rel="canonical" should definitely help with that.

Matt