It's possible (although unlikely) that your domain is in fact blacklisted. If so, post on the webmaster forum and ask for help first. If you've built decent backlinks, have social traffic, provide something other than what everyone can find anywhere else (that last one is important), and have more than one site page, it's very unlikely that you are not. indexed unless there is something more serious wrong. Nine times out of ten there is a basic mistake that has been overlooked like the ones above. I help run a travel website and we have pages with similar travel options in most of their itineraries which means their main content is the same with a few variations. What would be better? Keep similar pages noindex to ensure they're not considered duplicate content, or leave them canonical to the 'original'/bestseller option?
What would be the reason to use fax list canonicals on noindex for similar pages? And vice versa? - T. Boesen, Viby J, Denmark Advertising Continue reading below Canonical would definitely be better in this case. Noindex means that search engines are not allowed to add these pages to their index, which means that they could not offer this page for a very specific search. Let's imagine two pages as you describe: canonical duplication If the Hoober Bloob Highway page is the most popular and you choose not t