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Duplicate, Google Chose Different Canonical Than User

Over the past month or so, an increasing number of pages on our site have been de-indexed. It has started to affect some of our highly ranked pages and I'm worried about a 'contagion' of sorts since I have no idea what is causing it or how to stop it.

A slew of our products and blogs are being canonicalized to completely random pages that have nothing to do with them.

There hasn't been any changes to the XML sitemap, I've tried to force a few of those pages with Yoast to go to the correct canonical but nothing seems to work.

The only change that has been made to the site was at around the same time the first few pages started to de-index, a few DNS records were added.

Outside of that I'm at a loss on how to stop it.

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