Timeline for When to use canonical? Prepaid products of different values
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| Mar 30, 2014 at 16:33 | comment | added | MrWhite |
If you want both pages to appear in the SERPs, and you don't mind which, then omitting the rel="canonical" tag will not hurt your SEO. If Google determines that both pages are essentially a duplicate of the other then it might decide to return just one of the pages in the SERPs (simply because Google realises that the user doesn't want to see duplicate pages in the SERPs), otherwise there is no "penalty".
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| Mar 30, 2014 at 11:19 | comment | added | Tim | Thanks for your answer, so just to be clear: if I wouldn't care which variant will appear in the ranking and so I wouldn't specify the canonical relation, then it wouldn't hurt the overall SEO of those pages? | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 10:57 | history | edited | MrWhite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified duplicate / similar pages
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| Mar 30, 2014 at 10:20 | history | answered | MrWhite | CC BY-SA 3.0 |