Google indexing same page multiple times: Issue with canonicals

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@abrambailey

So, I guess the rationale here is that long threads are paginated, but since this is a lazy-loading SPA, the canonicals are behaving as if traditional pagination is happening. I’m honestly not sure what the rationale is for doing it this way.

This is wrong.

For crawlers, Discourse uses 20 posts longs pages, so every single post can be crawled just fine. There is no SPA for bots.

@abrambailey

Here’s the results you will see (48 results for a single page):

It has over 800 posts, so that is expected.

@abrambailey

should be considered an urgent SEO issue for the Discourse platform

Why? What is the actual problem? If you do a real world search for a word, are we linking to a page that doesn’t contain the word or something like that?