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FurqanAli
Participant

Facing issue of "duplicate pages without canonical" on most of the blog pages which has pagination.

Based on a report from Ahref I'm getting some URLs from the blog pages that are without canonical such as pagination links or blogs with specific tag links can someone clarify how we can resolve this issue?

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FurqanAli
Participant

Facing issue of "duplicate pages without canonical" on most of the blog pages which has pagination.

@LMeert thanks for the reply I can share the URL with you please check the examples below:

- blog/tag/meetings/page/1
- /blog/tag/meetings 
- /template/page/1 

Mostly related to paginated urls also can I no index these pages is it safe so they don't appear in the report?

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KStAngel
Contributor

Facing issue of "duplicate pages without canonical" on most of the blog pages which has pagination.

Hi @FurqanAli,
I'm guessing you solved this by now since this is an older post, but here's what I've found that fixed this issue on our blog. 

  • In your HubSpot account, click the settings settings icon in the main navigation bar.
  • In the left sidebar menu, navigate to Website > Pages.
  • Click the SEO & Crawlers tab.
  • For pages and blog posts, select "Add self-referencing canonical URLs...".
  • For blog listing pagesselect a "Set each blog listing page's canonical URL to the first page in its series".

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I'm not sure why Hubspot recommends the "Don't add canonical URLs to any blog listing pages" setting. On this post they say "search engines may be unable to find subsequent pages for your blog listing page." which leads me to believe that they expect it will add a canonical URL pointing to the index page from all listing pages, but in practice, that does not seem to be the case.

 

Here's how these settings rendered on my company's Hubspot blog:

Index page (equivalent to your /blog/tag/meetings) shows a self-referencing canonical, and a proper rel="next". Good.

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Page 1 (equivalent of your blog/tag/meetings/page/1) shows a canonical to the index page a proper rel="next". Great! That should make Google happy.

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Page 2 (to confirm no negative effects). This looks good. It'd be better if page 2 had a self-referencing canonical (more on that here: https://ahrefs.com/blog/canonical-tags/), but at least it's not adding a canonical to index thus stopping it's unique content from being indexed.

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KStAngel
Contributor

Facing issue of "duplicate pages without canonical" on most of the blog pages which has pagination.

I added a product suggestion in hopes this could be addressed on the Hubspot side:
https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Use-Best-Practices-for-Blog-Canonical-Tagging/idi-p/9...

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TitiCuisset
Community Manager
Community Manager

Facing issue of "duplicate pages without canonical" on most of the blog pages which has pagination.

Hi @FurqanAli 

 

Thank you for reaching out.

 

I want to tag some of our experts on this - @Kevin-C @LMeert @Anton do you know what may be happening here?

 

I would also recommend connecting with HubSpot Technical Support, as Support is included in your subscription and they will be able to provide real-time assistance for this matter, where you are able to share screenshots and further information about this!

 

Thank you!

Best

Tiphaine


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LMeert
Guide | Platinum Partner
Guide | Platinum Partner

Facing issue of "duplicate pages without canonical" on most of the blog pages which has pagination.

Hi @TitiCuisset,

 

Never had this issue before.
Maybe @FurqanAli you could share the website url and give us a precise example of a page missing a canonical tag so we can better understand what is your problem and find a solution to it ?

 

Thanks,

Ludwig

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