Canonical Related question
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I have a site where we have search and result pages, google webmaster tool was giving me duplicate content error for page 1 / 2 / 3 etc etc
so i have added canonical on these pages like http://www.business2sell.com/businesses/california/
Is this is correct way of using canonical ?
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Hi Manish,
The notices are just notices to let you know that you have a canonical tag there -- it's not an error, just an alert for you.
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I already have prev and next , relation included ..
but then i get so many notices in SEOMOZ, any idea why is that
I know it may not be very important, I just want to understand WHY ? -
Hi Manish - this is exactly how you use the canonical tag.
Your other option would be to use the rel next / prev but canonical works just as well and is what I use unless various "pages" (page 2, 3, 4 etc) are actually also ranking.
Cheers!
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