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Hello,

This feels like it should be straightforward but I'm not having much luck.

I have a pdf url which is no longer in use and takes the user to a 404 page.

I want to find all instances of when this pdf url is used on my site so I can update the copy and remove the link.

Please note - a redirect is not the right solution for this issue.

Hope you can help.

Thanks, Mary

@paintedbrickdigital hello! thanks for this info. i'll follow up with my agency and see where I get to! have a lovely day...

Hello,

I'm going round in circles with this issue, so hopefully someone can help...

The Moz crawl of my website lists a number of pages as "missing canonical url". The pages are all different and do not have similar content.

Do I need to add a canonical url to each page? My agency quoted the following (x referencing this page: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/consolidate-duplicate-urls)

• list itemYou would use Canonical URLs if:

• list item"...you have a single page that's accessible by multiple URLs, or different pages with similar content (for example, a page with both a mobile and a desktop version), Google sees these as duplicate versions of the same page."

• list itemThis is not the case here and so we would not propose to change anything. We could add Canonical URLs if the client feels that it is critical which occurs an additional cost.

Any help / advice much appreciated.

Thanks

Hello,

I had an issue with some pages being listed as duplicate content in my weekly Moz report. I've since discussed it with my web dev team and we decided to stop the pages from being crawled. The web dev team added this coding to the pages <meta name='robots' content='max-image-preview:large, noindex dofollow' />, but the Moz report is still reporting the pages as duplicate content.

Note from the developer "So as far as I can see we've added robots to prevent the issue but maybe there is some subtle change that's needed here. You could check in Google Search Console to see how its seeing this content or you could ask Moz why they are still reporting this and see if we've missed something?"

Any help much appreciated!