Duplicate Title Tags and Meta Desc even with the correct Canonical Tag
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I show a large/growing number of duplicate title tags and duplicate meta descriptions in my webmaster tools. I look at both pages
Both pages have the following canonical url:
<link rel="<a class="attribute-value">canonical</a>" href="http://www.thatsmytopper.com/wedding-cake-toppers/theme-cake-toppers/beach-theme-cake-toppers.html" >
Why does this show up as a duplicate title tag and description to Google still?
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Hello! I took into consideration both of your suggestions. I cant really do much with the cake toppers part because the products are what they are. I did try to reduce the number of time it was stated in the content but other than the product titles are trying to be descriptive.
In regards the noindex nofollow issue thank you for clarifying!
Ben
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Hi Irving,
Doesn't this seem like an instance where Googlbot is not adhering to the "no index, no follow" suggestion? What do you think of my comment below? Is that scenario a possibility in this case?
I ddisagree that this page is spammy. I don't think that the content is an issue. It is, after all, a wedding cake topper. Just my two cents
Thanks,
Dana -
I believe this is happening because Google bot is interpreting these as two separate pages. Sure there's a canonical on one, so Googlebot might consider that one the source of the original content, however it's still seeing two pages and those pages do have identical Title and Meta Descriptions. In other words, just because there's a canonical tag doesn't pre-empt Google from identifying the duplicate content as a duplicate.
I know it seems counter-intuitive, but I am fairly certain this is the case. Interested to know what others have to say.
Dana
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this should not be an issue at all since both pages are noindex, nofollow
i suggest you change them to noindex, follow though for better spidering
this is way too spammy too. google may suppress your rankings for "cake toppers"
[http://www.thatsmytopper.com/wedding-cake-toppers/theme-cake-toppers/beach-theme-cake-toppers.html](view-source:http://www.thatsmytopper.com/wedding-cake-toppers/theme-cake-toppers/beach-theme-cake-toppers.html)" />
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