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I use this

type into google site:www.example.com

If it shows the site it must be indexed

Hey MarikeP

I think that you are thinkig of the Knowledge Graph. Here is an excelente blog post from the moz blog, that will anwser your question.

http://moz.com/blog/mega-serp-a-visual-guide-to-google

Definitely use canonical. I use it on all my pages for the same problem.

As Gagan said: Using noindex - will make the page out of search engines index...

Hope i helped.

Yes i could use some help, i will send you an e-amil latter.

Love the SEOmoz community