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If you add the rel-tag to the master page then no. But, if you want them to rank for color and size and have a unique section of content let them stand along.
If you are not seeing major declines in traffic and you say they are indexed. I would keep it as it. You don't get hit for duplicate products but you will if the pages are gateway Keyword pages.
If you are not seeing a loss of traffic I would not bother. Check-in search console and see if the pages that are duplicate are indexed. Google might be already rel canonicalize them on their own. If that is the case the pages would not be indexed and in that case, I would add the rel tag to help Google better understand the flow of your website.
You are correct that you have to delete the duplicate website and set up in the redirects in the htaccess file. Once you have done that I would fetch the home page and other top-level pages to force Google to crawl. This will help with removing the duplicate pages out of Google's index.
Also, make sure they don't have a search console set up for the duplicate webiste with a submitted site map.
This site ranks well in the States and Austraila. Would rel language tags help with search for both states? https://www.dinkleboo.com/
Separating duplicate content.
Or how would you go about increasing ranking? The site ranks higher in the states than Austrailia but they want to increase their presence in AU.
US Position 4.9k
AU Position 1.3
I'm in the process of adding new content. Yes, you're correct we need to work getting quality new links.
Thanks for the advice on the drop down menu.
Thanks, Bernadette.
I've already did a disavowal file. The weird thing when I tool over the site didn't ahve webmaster tools set up so, I'm not sure if they had manual penalty. Any, ways I'll look further in to the link anchor text agin.
Is this a panda penalty? A slow decline like this. http://imgur.com/a/YZz9h
I've checked for penguin and nothing there. I've tried creating new content and we moved to HTTPS and added Rel Canonical to duplicate product pages. If you have time how you go about recovering this site?