Duplicate page titles

[paddydaddy]

Hi,

I have a Joomla 2.5 site and I use categoryblogs. So I have a page with "reviews". All the reviews are shown on this page and there are about 15 pages of it. In my SEOMoz crawl result I get 71 errors ! about "duplicate titles".

How can I diminish this? I don't know how to show all the reviews in a proper way other than what I have accomplished  with categoryblog.

Patrick

[Mike_Davis]

Wow, that is annoying! A simple solution would be to use a SEO page title module/widget (sorry, I'm not familiar with Joomla, but I'm sure they have one) and add page numbers.

Example: ... Reviews Page One, ... Reviews Page Two, etc.

I had an old site with this same problem on a photo gallery and it solved that issue.

I hope that helps!

[Everett]

Patrick can you post the site? If you don't feel comfortable doing that you can send it to me in a private message. Please include the specific reviews page/section you mention. I'd like to have a look at how pagination is being handled, whether any rel canonical tags are being used, etc...

Without seeing the site I think the best advice I can give is sort of general:

• Have the page number included in the title tag and meta description if possible (e.g. Page # - TITLE) as Mike Davis recommends below. This can probably be accomplished with the following extension ( http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/title-management/14747 ) though I have not had to use that specific extension personally.

• Implement rel next/prev if possible, though I have not seen any good extensions to accomplish this. The unique titles and descriptions should be fine for now if you can't implement rel next/prev.

• Ignore that SEOMoz warning next time if you have implemented either of the above solutions.

Good luck!

[Everett]

PS: I found this today, which seems to be a pretty good rundown of the pros and cons of various pagination strategies: http://www.ayima.com/seo-knowledge/conquering-pagination-guide.html . Keep in mind that it doesn't take into account how limited Joomla is in this area.