How Long Does it Take for Rel Canonical to De-Index / Re-Index a Page?
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Hi Mozzers,
We have 2 e-commerce websites, Website A and Website B, sharing thousands of pages with duplicate product descriptions.
Currently only the product pages on Website B are indexing, and we want Website A indexed instead.
We added the rel canonical tag on each of Website B's product pages with a link towards the matching product on Page A.
How long until Website B gets de-indexed and Website A gets indexed instead?
Did we add the rel canonical tag correctly?
Thanks!
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Is there anything I can do to speed up the process? I noticed that since adding the tag yesterday (I know it is still extremely early), Google has continued to index more of these pages on Website B.
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We did rel=canonical on a few hundred pages and it took google months to follow the instruction. These were not trivial pages buried deep in a website. They were PR4 pages with lots of traffic. The results in the end were as expected but it took a few months to happen.
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