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How to Remove Joomla Canonical and Duplicate Page Content
Hi Todd, Oh no, looks like all your canonicals are pointing towards the homepage.... <link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="[http://www.cherrycreekspine.com<](view-source:http://www.cherrycreekspine.com%3C/)"/> Also looks like there's an extra carrot "<" at the end of the URL. Looks like it's coming from the wonky code. Regardless, this isn't what you want. This basically tells search engines that every page is a canonical of the homepage - and that all these other pages aren't important on their own. It's likely search engines will start to drop these pages out of their index unless this tag is removed immediately. Reminds me of Dr. Pete's canonical nightmares. In short... remove that canonical ASAP. It's probably better to have some duplicate content than a sitewide canonical that points to your homepage. Have you tried the Joomla Canonicalisation Plugin? Haven't tried it myself, but it might be smidgen easier than trying to code the php yourself. You can find it here: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/url-canonicalization-/5355 My guess is you can completely remove whatever manual canonical code you wrote, and the plugin will take care of the rest. Remember, when the code is working properly, each page with point to itself (without extra parameters and so on) the way a proper canonical should. Best of luck!
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