Duplicate page title on blog

[MartinSpence46]

Is this something I should b concerned about? I get about 6 posts per page with unique titles - however the title per page is not unique. Is this important?

[rtmaas]

Hey Martin,

You want to have a unique page title and description for every page on your site. If you could provide a link to the site, that way we can look at it.

Ryan

[Adam.Whittles]

This is not a major issue as long as you include the rel="next" and rel="prev" for the paginated content.

You can read more about this at Google here:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/video-about-pagination-with-relnext-and.html

Adam.

[MartinSpence46]

Hey Ryan

Here's an example:

http://www.martinspencephotography.co.uk/blog?page=4

http://www.martinspencephotography.co.uk/blog?page=5

etc.

Any ideas how to give a unique page title to those pages?

Thanks

M

[Adam.Whittles]

As I said below, you do not need unique titles for these pages. When using pagination on a blog i.e. blog?page=4 and blog?page=5 you cannot avoid having the same page titles. Yes you should have unique page titles wherever possible but this is a case where it is not.

Again, you should make sure to use rel="next" and rel="prev" which you can find out more information about in the link I provided.

[MartinSpence46]

Thanks Adam

I'm new to Drupal and I'm not sure how to set up the rel='next' and rel='prev', I'll try to find out to avoid the duplication being returned.

Thanks

M

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Martin

Adam's pretty much got it - rel next/prev would take care of it (that's what Yoast's SEO plugin for WordPress does).

Only other option might be to noindex page 2, 3, 4 etc with a robots noindex meta tag. This would have only the first page indexed. Its another common solution.

As far as how to do this in Drupal, I'm not experienced with that platform, so not sure - but those are the two best solutions you'd want to use.

-Dan

[MartinSpence46]

Thanks guys

I got the rel='next' and rel='prev' added to blog pages.  I assume I don't need to worry about these pages showing up with Duplicate Page Titels:

http://www.martinspencephotography.co.uk/blog?page=8
http://www.martinspencephotography.co.uk/blog?page=3
http://www.martinspencephotography.co.uk/blog?page=2
http://www.martinspencephotography.co.uk/blog?page=1
http://www.martinspencephotography.co.uk/blog?page=6
http://www.martinspencephotography.co.uk/blog?page=5
http://www.martinspencephotography.co.uk/blog?page=4
http://www.martinspencephotography.co.uk/blog?page=7

Thanks

M

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[GreenBirdMedia]

Hi Martin,
I have the same problem on my site, Could you please tell me how you got this fixed in Drupal?

Thanks,
Nick