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    • AlessiaCamera
      AlessiaCamera last edited by

      Hi,

      For the second week in a row MOZ is finding duplicate titles crawling my website. 
      But as you see in the attached screenshot it doesn't seem it's a clear duplicate title thing, as it's mainly due to the different pages having the same title. 
      What should I do? Is it really affecting my SERP positioning?

      ZANRT

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      • Igor.Go
        Igor.Go last edited by

        This is exactly what duplicate title means, not that it copies someone else's title, but that you have several pages with identical titles. You must create unique titles for your pages, or use canonical tag if you must use identical titles.

        Otherwise, search engines will see that your website has a bunch of pages with identical content.

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        • AlessiaCamera
          AlessiaCamera last edited by

          Great, thanks. But how do I change that from my WP dashboard?

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          • davebuts
            davebuts last edited by

            Hi Alessia,

            While you could say these are duplicates (as Igor said), I don't think Moz should be reporting these as duplicates because they are not an issue as they are handled with hreflang and pagination - and won't actually cause you any problems.

            However, I would update your Italian pages to use Italian titles. They seem to be in Italian everywhere except the title - this will be important for you to get Italian traffic to your site.

            There is also a small issue with your hreflang implementation where you are only specifying a language. You must specify a language and a country for hreflang to validate.

            Cheers,

            David

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