Duplicate without user-selected canonical
If you are encountering the "Duplicate without user-selected canonical" error on your Blogger site, one quick way to address it is by setting a canonical URL for your blog posts. A canonical URL is the preferred version of a URL, and it helps search engines understand which version of a page to index.
Here's
a brief step-by-step guide:
1. Log in to your Blogger account:
Go to Blogger, and log in to the account associated with your blog.
2. Access your blog:
Navigate to the dashboard and select the blog where you're facing the duplicate content issue.3. Go to Settings:
In the left sidebar, click on "Settings."
4. Search Preferences:
Under Settings, click on "Search preferences."
5. Edit Custom robots.txt:
Scroll down to the "Crawlers and Indexing" section. Look for "Custom robots.txt" and click "Edit."
6. Add Canonical Tags:
In the robots.txt editor, add the following lines:
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://hearttechpro.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Make sure to replace https://hearttechpro.blogspot.com with the actual URL of your blog.
7. Save Changes:
Save the changes you made to the robots.txt file.
8. Fetch as Google:
After saving, go back to the "Search preferences" page and click on "Fetch as Google" under the "Crawling and Indexing" section. Fetch your homepage and posts.
9. Submit to Index:
Once the fetching is complete, click on "Submit to Index" and choose "Crawl only this URL." This will prompt Google to re-crawl your blog.
Adding canonical tags to your robots.txt file guides search engines
on the preferred version of your content, which can help resolve the
"Duplicate without user-selected canonical" issue. Remember that
it might take some time for the changes to take effect, and for Google to re-crawl
and index your pages.
