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Is rel="canonical" the way to go?

  • 03-11-2014 12:21PM
    #1
    cormee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I have a site that users can post adverts on, I have pretty URLs running and I also have a bit of code that makes the first few lines of the ad description to be the meta description, and the ad title also becomes the page title.

    However I noticed when I logged into Google Webmaster tools when users change the advert title a new URL is created, which Google sees as a new advert,with the same meta description, and duplicate titles. So I have a few hundred warnings, which isn't great.

    I reckon adding a rel="canonical" is the obvious solution to the problems, for both the warnings over duplicate descriptions, titles and for any duplicate content concerns.

    Has anyone any experience with a problem like this, or can anyone see any issues with, or alternatives to, the solution?

    Thanks.


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