Question about Poster 2 and canonical URL's

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This is the hypothetical setup…

The page name is domain.com/poster/

It contains three P2 items named cats dogs horses

Fancy URL’s are set up, so the URLs to each item is…

domain.com/poster/cats
domain.com/poster/dogs
domain.com/poster/horses

So far, so good. When submitted to Google, it’ll see these “pages”.

But, P2 also does categories, so there are also the following URL’s…

domain.com/poster/?category=categoryname?post=cats or something like that.

So now, Googles throws a wobbly because there are in effect two URL’s to the post called cats

The simple fix is to fire a canonical URL thingie into the header, but will that then tell Google to ignore all the P2 item URLs on the page as well as the one that includes the category name bit?

Tagging @Jannis on this, but also hoping others might be able to chime in with some expert understanding on this stuff. (Not insinuating Jannis isn’t expert!)

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I am already firing a canonical URL thingie into the header, so I don’t know why Google complains.

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It’s Google. It always complains!

Good to know it’s already done though. I’ll just add these complaints to the long list of Google complaints to ignore.

:-)

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If you have a detailed page where this error occurs I’m happy to look into it. I need the page and error description from Google.

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I’ll message you the details.