How to fix duplicate content caused by tags?

[cschwartzel]

I use SEMRush, and the issue they are finding is I have 30 duplicate content issues. All seem to be caused by the tags I add in my portfolio pieces. I have looked at my SEO settings (taxonomies, etc) in the Wordpress site, and don't know what I am doing wrong....any advice how to fix? I have attached a screen shot

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[hammadrafique]

If you're using Wordpress SEO by yoast then simply go to its settings> Titles & Metas> under the tab of Taxanomies check the radio button of "noindex, follow". see the image:

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and if you're not using it then simply add this to your robots.txt file:

Disallow: /tag/

check out this one for sample: http://backlinko.com/robots.txt

[cschwartzel]

It already is checked. That's the problem.....

[hammadrafique]

Can you please provide URL of your website?

[cschwartzel]

www.srgservices.com

[hammadrafique]

I've searched your indexed pages in Google search and I don't see any tags indexed in Google. I think SEMrush's crawler doesn't count the noindex tags in the page, and it only counts the duplicate pages.

Search it in google: site:www.srgservices.com and tell me if you find any tags' pages indexed.

[cschwartzel]

Thanks for your help It still shows up all the tags as duplicate, so I decided to turn it over to SEMRush and see if I am possible reading the report incorrectly. Or, there is an issue with their tool. When I hear back I will let you know

[cschwartzel]

SEMrush got back to me, and it was a bug. But glad to know that I was checking all the right things. It's good to get confirmation from another SEO that I was doing this correctly. Thanks