Duplicate Title & Content in WordPress
-
I'm getting a lot of Crawl Errors due to duplicate content and duplicate title because of category and tag posts in WordPress. I rebuilt the sitemap and said to exclude category and tags, should that clear up the issue? I've also went through and did NO INDEX and NO FOLLOW for all categories and posts. Any thoughts on this issue?
-
Thanks. Sorry if this is a basic question, but if I describe lets say the august2010 category as Comedy podcasts from August 2010 even in front of the loop won't that repeated title still cause the errors?
-
"The Loop is used by WordPress to display each of your posts. Using The Loop, WordPress processes each of the posts to be displayed on the current page and formats them according to how they match specified criteria within The Loop tags."
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
Its basically the code that displays the list of posts in your category & tag pages.
-
I do a podcast and categorize the episode in months, like http://seantgreen.com/category/april2011/ , which has a duplicate problem with http://seantgreen.com/category/april2010/
-
Casey,
Thanks for the info, sorry I'm unclear what you mean by the term "before the loop"?
Sean -
Hi Sean,
Just because you removed them from the sitemap, doesn't mean they wont still cause that duplicate content errors as the page still exists, same with the NO INDEX and NO FOLLOW, the content is still being "duplicated" in multiple locations of your site.
Adding good solid category descriptions before the loop has changed this for me in the past.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
How come canonicalized pages are showing in the Duplicate Titles report?
I am currently removing all duplicate titles from my site via title tag changes, 301's, and in some instances, canonical tags. I'm confused about why the Moz report spit out pages with duplicate titles that are canonicalized to other pages. Does Google actually consider these pages as having duplicate titles? Or is Roger Mozbot not intuitive enough to to disregard those pages?
On-Page Optimization | | StevenLevine0 -
Content Mismatch
Hi, I've added my app to search console, and there are reported 480 content mismatch pages. How can I solve this problem?
On-Page Optimization | | Silviu0 -
Is minor duplicate content on my website okay?
I know duplicate content across multiple websites is not a good thing, however I've always wondered about minor duplicate content on your own website. I know its good practice to have unique content on each page but what about the little stuff. For example on our website certain related pages share the same content in a right sidebar. Such as links to pdf leaflets, or "you can read our blog etc" . Is there a minimum number of repeated words required before its flagged as duplicate content? Another example is a customer gave two testimonials for two of our employees - the testimonials were identical other than the employee names - if these were posted on separate pages is it a problem for the site as a whole or for both those individual pages? Thanks
On-Page Optimization | | Brabian0 -
Wordpress & SEO Markup
Buon Giorno from 6 degrees C wetherby UK 🙂 I'm close to commissioning a designer to create a wordpress driven site but I'm anxious around the standard of the markup. Specifically I need pages to have the classic unique title tags, one H1 tag per page and contnet in p tags.
On-Page Optimization | | Nightwing
Now I know theres a wordpress plugin claiming to empower the administartor to have control but are there any icebergs ahead I need navigate to ensure my sites meets Google optimization guildlines? Any advice welcome 🙂1 -
Keywords on title
hi, some pages of my website showing keywords attached in google as part of page title, but the title doesn't have that keyword in it. So basically when you search for "keyword (1)" , page ranks for the keyword with this title <address>Keyword (1) + keyword (2)</address> <address>but the keyword (2) is not part of the title, but shows there in google's index.</address> <address> </address> <address>keyword (2) is </address> <address>can anyone help us understand why this is happening ?</address> <address>I 'd appreciate any help.</address> <address> </address> <address>thanks </address> <address>nick</address>
On-Page Optimization | | orion680 -
Is This Duplicate Content Hurting Our SERPs?
We sell 1000s of audio book title, many of which are published in more than one format (abridged, unabridged CD, and/or unabridged MP3) by the same publisher. Currently each title has its own page but the basic description of the title (story) is the same. Here is an example title that is offered in three formats. 44 Charles Street - Danielle Steel - abridged CD audiobook 44 Charles Street - Danielle Steel - MP3 CD audiobook 44 Charles Street - Danielle Steel - CD audiobook Each of the above pages has a different page title, a different URL, a different meta description however much of the body (from [Listen to a FREE Audio Clip] down is the same. Is this duplicate content hurting our SERPs?
On-Page Optimization | | lbohen1 -
Offer landing page, duplicate content and noindex
Hi there I'm setting up a landing page for an exclusive offer that is only available (via a link) to a particular audience. Although I've got some specific content (offer informaiton paragraph), i want to use some of the copy and content from one of my standard product pages to inform the visitors about what it is that i'm trying to sell them. Considering I'm going to include a noindex on this page, do i need to worry about it having some content copied directly from another page on my site? Thanks
On-Page Optimization | | zeegirl0 -
Duplicate Links
Hello, I am entering sitewide navigation that will go to primary seo pages. This is really for usability, not for link juice. I'm wondering if I should still link to these very important pages in my index page's content. Or if I should consider those navigation links strong enough. If I did link in the content, then I would have more than one link to the same page on my home page. Thanks Tyler
On-Page Optimization | | tylerfraser0