Duplicate Title Tags On Blogs

[Prestige-SEO]

Hello Mozzers,

I have a client who has a blog and articles section on their website, due to the amount of content they have in these section they have multiples pages so it would be like..

www.bluewidgets.com/blog/p1

www.bluewidgets.com/blog/p2

www.bluewidgets.com/blog/p3

www.bluewidgets.com/blog/p4

All obvioulsy with seperate content in each blog/article posts but the meta descriptions on title tags for this p1,p2,p3,p4 and so on are all the same, is this a major issue? and if so how do I fix it?

[Devin_Anderson]

Hi,

Duplicate meta descriptions are not a MAJOR seo issue, but it's likely to negatively effect your click through rate from the SERPs.

The quickest way, I've found, to fix the problem is to orient your content management system to automatically generate a meta description for each blog post by lifting lines out of the main text of the article.

[mad2k]

Hi,

Agree with Devin, meta description is very important but not major factor but I've noticed that in question head you asked about TITLE tag.

Title tag is major SEO issue, so if you can employ even automatic meta tag generator.

If not ask programmers to export all meta title and description to excel sort by URL and set unique title and description and next ask your tech staff to import it to the blog. I hope it is not dynamic generated content if yes only first solution is possible.

[DougRoberts]

I don't know if this google video might help: Video about pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev”

It talks specifically about this kind of article index pagination.

[gfiorelli1]

If your client's blog is a Wordpress installed one (not wordpress.com), then I suggest you to install and use Wordpress SEO by Yoast, which can be configured in order to solve this kind of issues (and also implements the rel prev rel next feature for pagination).

[ChristinaRadisic]

Dealing with p1, p2, p3 within a blog.

Would the following deal with the duplication?

name="robots" content="noindex,follow">

Or would using the rel="next" and rel="prev" work better?