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    • MHD
      MHD last edited by

      Hello fellows

      I working on a site that have duplicate pages' titles tags, the case is the following: there is a category page that is split in couple pages via pagination (1,2,3 ....) all these pages have the same title tag

      for example: looking at this page for example, it has a pagination at the bottom, all the pages in the pagination (let's say page 5 for example) have the same title tag for the rest (including the first page).

      How should I deal with this case? should I simply add to the title tag its corresponding page number? e.g, full interviews - page 1? or I should I use canonical tag? I'm really confused.

      Your help is really appreciated.

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      • simon_realbuzz
        simon_realbuzz last edited by

        You could make use of differentiating each of the title tags with use of page 2, page 3 etc but in addition if you really want to capitalise on the strength of the pages you could make use of the rel=next  rel=prev mark up to give a strong indication to Google that these are a paginated series. This will consolidate the indexing properties across all the pages.

        Look at the following example lifted from Google webmaster Central

        Let’s say you have content paginated into the URLs:

        http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=1
        http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2
        http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=3
        http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=4

        On the first page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=1, you’d include in the section:

        On the second page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=2:

        On the third page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=3:

        And on the last page, http://www.example.com/article?story=abc&page=4:

        By all means make each of the titles unique, but also connect them all in the series by implementing rel=next rel=prev.

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        • MHD
          MHD @simon_realbuzz last edited by

          Can't emphasize how useful your answer is, that will solve the problem for us, thank you very very much 🙂

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