Best Way To Go About Fixing "HTML Improvements"

[tarafaraz]

So I have a site and I was creating dynamic pages for a while, what happened was some of them accidentally had lots of similar meta tags and titles.  I then changed up my site but left those duplicate tags for a while, not knowing what had happened. Recently I began my SEO campaign once again and noticed that these errors were there. So i did the following.

1. Removed the pages.

2. Removed directories that had these dynamic pages with the remove tool in google webmasters.

3. Blocked google from scanning those pages with the robots.txt.

I have verified that the robots.txt works, the pages are longer in google search...however it still shows up in in the html improvements section after a week.  (It has updated a few times). So I decided to remove the robots.txt file and now add 301 redirects.

Does anyone have any experience with this and am I going about this the right away? Any additional info is greatly appreciated thanks.

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

I wouldn't remove pages just because they had issues. Some of that content may hold value, it's just a matter of making sure that your on-site SEO is unique to those pages. Your users maybe searching for it - make sure you research and tailor those pages to your user's intent.

Google also offers advice on duplicate content, including parameters and dynamic pages, so make sure you read through that before you just start discarding pages/content.

Hope this helps! Good luck!

[DSM_UK]

Great advise here,

Just to add Google Search Console seems to update it's index slower than the search index so it is possible to see old errors longer than they exists until it is re-indexed.

Kind Regards

Jimmy