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    • marcandre
      marcandre last edited by

      Hi,

      I've had the same website for 6 months and fixed all original on-site issues a long time ago.Now this week I wake up and found 3 new errors:

      3 of my pages have missing titles issues, missing meta description issues and also the Moz crawl says they all have duplicate content issues. All my rankings went down a lot as well.

      This site is static, doesn't even have a blog, everything is rel canonical and non-indexed. It's 100% original content as well. So how can those issues arise 6 months later? All my titles and descriptions are there and non-duplicate, and the content is original and not duplicate as well.

      Is this a wordpress bug or virus? Anyone had this happen to them and how to fix it?

      Thanks a lot for you help!

      -Marc

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      • EGOL
        EGOL last edited by

        It's 100% original content as well. So how can those issues arise 6 months later?

        Scrapers or content thieves are possibilities, but technical issues and oversight could also cause it.

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        • SEO5Team
          SEO5Team last edited by

          3 of my pages have missing titles issues, missing meta description issues

          • Did you do any updates on your site that could have led to the meta tags getting deleted from the pages. Identify the pages missing the meta tags and fix them asap

          Duplicate Content Issues

          You can use copyscape to find out who might be duplicating your content. The Moz tools can assist you in checking if the content is duplicated internally on any of the pages.

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