Are pages with a canonical tag indexed? | SEO Q&A | MozMozSearchResourcesMenuicon-closeSearchMoz
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Are pages with a canonical tag indexed? | SEO Q&A | MozMozSearchResourcesMenuicon-closeSearchMoz

If your paginated content is still showing in large quantities in the index, Google may not be honoring the canonical tag properly, and they could be causing duplicate content issues. It depends on the implementation, but they recommend these days that you don't canonical to the first page of search results. Google may choose to ignore the tag in some cases.