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Is rel="canonical" the way to go?

cormee · 2014-11-03 11:21:10

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…

03-11-2014 11:21am

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cormee

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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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