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by FuturisticLover 194 days ago
Canonical Tags are done perfectly. Never changed them, and the blog is quite old too. I found a pattern where Google considers a page a duplicate because of the URL structure. For example:

www.xyz.com/blog/keyword-term/ www.xyz.com/services/keyword-term/ www.xyz.com/tag/keyword-term/

So, for a topic, if I have two of the above pages, Google will pick one of them canonically despite different keyword focus and intent. And the worst part is that it picks the worst page canonical, i.e., the tag page over blog or blog page over service.

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I guess a workaround could be to tell googlebot to keep off /tag/?
I did that. But I am not sure what to do with blog and service pages. Can't tell Google to off one of them. For now, I have priortized service page as canonical.