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How can I fix "Duplicate Meta Titles' in SEO

by @stevenusername (118), 5 years ago

Auditing my website www.whatsongreece.com I get 'Duplicate Meta Titles' SEO Errors. I have listings of accommodation archives as 'pagination pages' with same URL but different content. Shall I leave this as is or there a solution to help get rid of this SEO Error?

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ariamathew
by @ariamathew (155), 5 years ago

Search Engines always demands different titles for different pages. So try giving different titles. Your error will be resolved

digitalredesign
by @digitalredesign (105), 5 years ago

Yes, I agree with @ariamathew.

@stevenusername in order to easily see which titles have been duplicated, you can use Screamingfrog SEO spider, there is a free version of the software. Simply go through the details and change the titles.

Good luck!

boopin
by @boopin (136), 5 years ago

Google found a page title duplicated when it matches exactly same as other page URL. Adding page ids to each of the paginated pages could resolve this issue. For example, if your page is www.example.com/xyz is the original paginated page. Then you can create each one as www.example.com/xyz?as2345as_page=1 www.example.com/xyz?as2345as_page=2

seosubcription
by @seosubcription (45), 5 years ago

Here is the thing you can do,

Use Crawlable Anchor Links:-

Your root page URL should be like - example.com/category 2nd page URL Should be like - example.com/category?page2 so on the the remaining URLs

For search engines to efficiently crawl paginated pages, the site must have anchor links with href attributes to these paginated URLs.Be sure your site uses href=”your-paginated-url-here” for internal linking to paginated pages. Don’t loaded paginated anchor links or href attribute via JavaScript. Additionally, you should indicate the relationship between component URLs in a paginated series with rel=”next” and rel=”prev” attributes.

Complement the rel=”next” / “prev” with a self-referencing rel=”canonical” link. So /category?page=4 should rel=”canonical” to /category?page=4. This is appropriate as pagination changes the page content and so is the master copy of that page.

If the URL has additional parameters, include these in the rel=”prev” / “next” links, but don’t include them in the rel=”canonical”.

For example:

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Doing so will indicate a clear relationship between the pages and prevent the potential of duplicate content.

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