Can Canonical Tag be used?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by cuteboy, Apr 26, 2013.

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    One of my websites is having same meta title and description on 3 pages. For Example, all the 3 pages listed below have the same meta titles and description:

    1. www.exampleurl.com/page1
    2 www.exampleurl.com/page1/page2
    3. www.exampleurl.com/page1/page3

    Now, i don't and i even can't change the meta for these 3 pages. Can i use canonical Tag on any of the pages (lets say page 1 as it is of higher priority) or is there any other option for me to tell Google not to consider meta's for page 2 and page 3.

    Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.
     
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    cuteboy, Apr 26, 2013 IP
  2. #2
    use noindex and nofollow tag on those 2 pages. Like this

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>...</title>
    <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
    </head>
     
    somanbangaree, May 4, 2013 IP
  3. voige

    voige Member

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    You can specify a canonical URL in two ways:
    Add a rel="canonical" link to the <head> section of the non-canonical version of each HTML page.
    <link rel="canonical" href="www.exampleurl.com/page1"/>
     
    voige, May 4, 2013 IP
  4. SERPpoint

    SERPpoint Active Member

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    Also, whether you use meta tags or not, search engine would take excerpt from your content for displaying search result, it takes the relevant content from your page's content.
     
    SERPpoint, May 5, 2013 IP