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Hay, Everyone I am doing seo of my site but I notic that after submmiting url through Google Search Console 2 or 3 page are repeating with same Meta Title and URLs. I don't know how to remove these duplcate URLs from the SERP?
Can anyone guide me in this situation. Thanks.

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Quick, practical triage and fixes that actually move the needle (builds on and )

Start with a focused audit in Google Search Console: open the Page Indexing (Coverage) report to find “duplicate” statuses, then use the URL Inspection tool on representative URLs to see the “user-declared” vs “Google‑selected” canonical and crawl/indexing details. Export a short list of pages that get impressions or traffic and fix those first. (zoomseo.com.au)

Why Google might ignore your preference — and how to stop the ping‑pong
Rel=canonical is a strong signal but it is still a hint: Google weighs redirects, sitemap entries, internal/external links and other site signals when picking a canonical. To get Google to honor your choice, make all signals consistent: pick one canonical form (https, www or non‑www, trailing slash), update internal links and sitemaps to that form, and use 301 redirects when you remove or replace URLs. Also note that the old meta keywords tag has no effect on Google — skip it. (developers.google.com)

Common causes and targeted fixes

  • Parameter sprawl (UTMs, sort, session IDs): stop linking to parametered URLs internally, and either add a canonical to the clean URL or implement server-side redirects/rewrites for ephemeral params.
  • Faceted navigation: mark low-value combinations as noindex,follow (so links are still crawled) rather than blocking them; remember a noindex must be crawlable (don’t block it in robots.txt).
  • Pagination and variants: give each paginated page a self-referencing canonical (don’t canonicalize all pages to page 1) — and don’t rely on rel=prev/next (Google no longer uses it). (developers.google.com)

Validate and monitor
After changes request reindexing with URL Inspection, watch the Page Indexing report for canonical shifts, and re-check any URLs Google previously selected differently. For larger sites, automate spot-checks with the URL Inspection API and review server logs to catch indexing of unwanted variants. If Google still picks a different canonical, compare which URL has more inbound links and consider a 301 redirect for final consolidation. (zoomseo.com.au)

Notes: this complements ’s canonical suggestion (align your signals) and ’s GSC advice — but corrects a couple of common misunderstandings (meta‑keywords are obsolete; robots.txt won’t make a noindex visible).

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Hi,

I'm not sure I fully understand your question. I browsed your site and most pages do not have meta tags. For example, I'm on your Zalgo Text Generator page and I don't see meta keywords or meta description.

Every unique page of your site needs to have at least four things:

  • A unique title different from every other page on the site
  • A unique meta description different from every other page on the site
  • A unique meta keywords different from every other page on the site
  • A canonical tag that indicates that it is the primary version of the page

A <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/page.html"> tag tells Google, and other search engines, the URL of the primary version of the page. If you have more than one different URL that has the same, or similar, content on it, you can use the same canonical URL in the meta tags to tell Google which page you want showing up in the search engines, and not to penalize the other pages for duplicate content.

If you have two or more pages that have near-identical content but different URLs, then you can use the same title, description, and keywords as long as there is the same canonical tag as well.

Member Avatar for FitIsHit

Thanks Dani for sharing your Great Knowledge. Your Tips Are Awesome and I will must follow them.

Member Avatar for Janu_3

Thank you so much I am also facing too many issues of duplication on my website fonts bunch of canonical issues in search console And I know it will now be fix Thank you

Member Avatar for Gulshan_6

Well, I will recommend that you use Google Search Console or other third party SEO tools to check which page or URL is treated as duplicate and then you need to check resource of these duplicated url and then by using robots.txt file or implementing a noindex you can fix this error.
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