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        • askotzko
          askotzko last edited by

          I implemented rel=canonical on our pages which helped a lot, but my latest Moz crawl is still showing lots of duplicate page titles (2,000+).

          There are other ways to get to this page (depending on what feature you clicked, it will have a different URL) but will have the same page title.

          Does having rel=canonical in place fix the duplicate page title problem, or do I need to change something else? I was under the impression that the canonical tag would address this by telling the crawler which URL was the URL and the crawler would only use that one for the page title.

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          • AL123al
            AL123al last edited by

            Hello,

            I also have a similar problem. Please can you tell me if having duplicate page titles in Moz is an issue as I also have rel= canonical in place.

            Thanks

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            • Dr-Pete
              Dr-Pete Staff @keeszorge last edited by

              If you can direct message me which campaign you're talking about, I can take a look.

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              • keeszorge
                keeszorge last edited by

                Hi there,

                Any news on this topic yet?
                I also have a lot duplicate page titles.
                Even dough we use canonical tags on the pages. Moz sees them as duplicate page titles.

                Even if the search engines recognize these canonical tags and don't see those pages as duplicate page titles, I still see them in my Moz reports. Which makes it difficult to see legitimate duplicate page titles.

                Any suggestions?

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                • Dr-Pete
                  Dr-Pete Staff @diztinct last edited by

                  Can you private message me (via the site) and tell me the URL - I'll check the campaign and ask the team, in case we've got a bug.

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                  • diztinct
                    diztinct last edited by

                    Any word from the SEOMoz product team on this issue? We recently added a number of "view all" category pages within an e-commerce site that our weekly crawl report is now reporting as having duplicate titles, even though we have rel=canonical tags in place.

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                    • Dr-Pete
                      Dr-Pete Staff last edited by

                      From a broader sense, in terms of Google, yes - the canonical tag will also help alleviate duplicate META data. In our system, though, I'm honestly not 100% sure - I'm going to check with the product team.

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                      • AdoptionHelp
                        AdoptionHelp @askotzko last edited by

                        Yeah check out URL Normalization under the Indexing tab.

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                        • askotzko
                          askotzko last edited by

                          Thanks! Is there a way to do similar w/ Bing?

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                          • AdoptionHelp
                            AdoptionHelp last edited by

                            Rel Canonical should help with the issue. You should also go into google webmaster tools and put in all your URL parameters, so the crawler has a better idea of whats going on with being able to get to a particular resource with several URL variations.

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