Duplicate Page Title

[TroyDean71]

Hi Guys,

First off, it's an honour to be a part of this awesome community.

I'm using WordPress and getting top 3 rankings for great keywords and I'm very excited, however my page titles are in this format "keyword optimised title here - site name here"

eg:

"This is my keyword - this is the name of my blog",

"This is another keyword - this is the name of my blog",

"This is a longtail keyword - this is the name of my blog"

SEOMoz is reporting errors because of duplicate page title tags due to the "this is the name of my blog" being in every page title.

Will this hurt my rankings?

Thanks in advance and keep up the great work!

Cheers,

Troy.

[RyanKent]

Hi Troy.

What you are describing are not instances of duplicate titles and are normally not reported as such. It is more likely each instance is an example of a page with a duplicated title.

If you disagree, then there is an error with the tool which should be reported to help@seomoz.org. I have not heard anyone else share this type of error.

[TroyDean71]

Aha! It's the "tag" pages in WordPress. I have activate Yoasts Robots Meta Plugin now and prevented tag and all other archive pages forem being indexed.

Thanks for prompting me to dig a little deeper Ryan.

[RyanKent]

I'm glad to hear you located the root cause and the issue is resolved.