Automatic Duplicate Content Problem

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Hi,

Just checked my site at google by the usage of site:domain.com and realized almost all of my content is automatically duplicated in the search engine.


For example, a certain post appears under different tags and categories.

Also, some pages appear with https://domain.com while other appear only with domain.com (without http or www)

Does anyone know what causes this duplicate problem and how to solve it?

Thanks you very much in advance
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  • It seems to me like canonical problem where same content is accessible from two different urls and google has indexed both of them. If this is the case either you can use 301 redirect or canonical tag on pages. For more information on this problem, refer to this url : https://support.google.com/webmaster...r/139066?hl=en
  • also make sure you no index tags and categories
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    • Thanks for the response Webby,


      I've just no-indexed my tags and categories by the usage of the yoast plugin.


      Do you know how long it will take before this is updated in the search engine (results)?
  • a little while for them to be deindexed, over a month sometimes. Duplicate tags and categories produce a huge amount of duplicate posts. Also mate disable the author and archive indexes
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    • Thank you Webby,

      I guess It will take some time before my rankings are going to improve again

      Do you maybe know of any methods or things I can do to speed up this process?
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    1. Delete or noindex all Tag pages because it's obviously duplicate internal pages.
      • If you decide to keep the Tag pages then nofollow any/all internal links pointing to Tag pages.
      • You could also use canonical tags on Tag pages pointing back to the original content pages/URLs.
    2. Create unique category pages with links pointing to the internal pages instead of the same content showing up on the category pages.
      • There's no reason to not index a category page, that's the mother of all pages for each subject (research SEO silos).

    That will fix the duplicate pages in the SERPs.
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    • Thank you very much Yukon,

      Awesome answer, I'm gone change the settings immediatly.

      How long do you think it will take to "undo the damage?"
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