Duplicate Content Issues

Google is flagging that I have duplicate content (lots of it)

When I looked into it I found that it’s referring to Meta titles and Descriptions, I started using the GD Meta’s and Title’s a couple of months ago now and deactivated Yoast on those pages.

It turns out that google is now indexing ‘pages’ or ‘tabs’ which ever you want to call it.

https://www.caninedirectory.co.uk/dog-walks/

https://www.caninedirectory.co.uk/dog-walks/page/4/

and so on, the issue is the titles and metas are the same for those.

It’s doing it for ALL my CPT’s and Categories, meaning I will have hundreds if not thousands of pages indexed with duplicate issues.

If I’m correct that is a massive no no for SEO and will also cause Google to lower the rank off ALL my pages as a consequence.

It’s not only doing it for each category but also each location.

https://www.caninedirectory.co.uk/dog-services/

too

https://www.caninedirectory.co.uk/dog-services/page/256/

plus it’s starting to index locations such as

https://www.caninedirectory.co.uk/dog-services/united-kingdom/

too

https://www.caninedirectory.co.uk/dog-services/united-kingdom/page/256/

now that’s just from one CPT for no location and United Kingdom.

Both are exactly the same in content just with location and without.

That’s 562 URL’s that don’t need indexing? I’ve notice on some Google searches I’m getting pages like the above rank for location searches.

It’s showing pages with a Kennels in location x that was search for, so people are seeing https://www.caninedirectory.co.uk/dog-services/page/100/ or something instead of say

https://www.caninedirectory.co.uk/dog-services/united-kingdom/nottinghamshire/nottingham/boarding_kennels/

I never had this issue with Yoast but Yoast obviously has it’s disadvantages.

Is this normal or have I missed a setting because as far as I can see Google should not be listing ‘pages’ over actual location pages.

Not only should it not be showing them it should not be indexing them?

I’m concerned that this is having a massive negative impact on my SEO and the longer it goes on for the worse it’s going to get as it indexes new ones daily.

Thank you.