Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout at the 3:16 mark that the URLs Google finds in your XML sitemap files are often used to define your canonical URLs. John said "we recommend doing that is ...
In general, it makes little sense to submit duplicate URLs in a Sitemap file, which is why this message was added. There is one item which may lead to confusion here though - Google's Sitemaps ...
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