Webmaster > HTML Improvements > Duplicate title tags

[mtthompsons]

Hi,

Webmaster > HTML Improvements > Duplicate title tags shows as in screenshot. How can i set this right as its a single page which duplicates?

http://imgur.com/mjB0xZS

Regards

[csfarnsworth]

I simply suggest you use the robots.txt file.

Create a robots.txt file like it.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /archive

Upload it into your root folder of the Site.

The Other way to deal with duplicates is changing the title of each duplicated page.
For more details you can read this detail article.

[http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag](http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag)

[mtthompsons]

The screenshot is from webmaster tools

I do have robots with

Disallow: /archive/
but still dhows as duplicates in webmasters

[zeepartner]

Disallow: /archive/ does not work for urls like archive?page=333

I suggest to block it as Christopher described above or like this:

Disallow: /archive?*

[csfarnsworth]

Kindly follow the format that I have mentioned and check out results in next 3 days,

[evolvingSEO]

First - I would noindex them with a robots meta noindex - and not use the robots.txt disallow. The whole point is to not have them in the index. The robots.txt will prevent crawling but not remove from the index. So noindex the archives and remove the robots.txt disallow.

Then - just wait. WMT data can take months to catch up. I would not worry about the data in WMT so much though if you know you've got the right settings.

-Dan

[csfarnsworth]

Dan Shure yes I miss this point.In addition to noindex you can use Google removal tool to remove these links one by one.Trying any of these things make sure you know how to use them as it can highly impact your traffic if one of the thing goes wrong.