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> A well patterned and modern site developed in the past five years shouldn't have these issues.

All depends on the site at hand. A great example is a content aggregation site with lots of ways to slice the data... MANY ways to "skin the cat" and it's a case-by-case situation when you fine tune how a site gets crawled.

Modern sites are wonderful because you can build in modern best practices but complexity is still a PIA when you get a product out there in the wild =)

Anyone should be really skeptical with SEO advice/content since there is no silver bullet, but I found this to be a enlightening read too!




In my experience with SEO work on a large data driven website, they ignore canonicals if they don't actually point to the same content.


still wastes crawl budget and in the past I saw a large uk site lose > £500 k in less than a week from a simple canonical mistake on 20 % or so of their pages.




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