Duplicate Titles caused by blog

[josh123]

Hey I've done some research and understand the canonical tags and rel prev and rel next, but I wanted to get someones opinion on if we needed it since the articles are somewhat independent of each in content (there's a focus on both banks and accountants)

We have over 68 pages of blog materials

http://www.sageworks.com/blog/default.aspx?page=7

through

http://www.sageworks.com/blog/default.aspx?page=68

Thanks in advance for your help!

[jesse-landry]

Well it's true that the articles are independent in content, but these pages are simply the index/teasers for said articles. I'm not sure you need your archive lists indexed so much as the articles themselves, so why not use Canonical tags to solve this problem and canonical them all to page 1? (or whatever one holds the most recent blogs)

Hope that helps/makes sense.

[TakeshiYoung]

Pagination can is a somewhat tricky subject. The best solution is usually to include pagination markup (rel=next/prev) and include the appropriate canonical tags to avoid duplicate content. This brief tutorial from Google explains what to do:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

If you really want 68 pages of archives indexed (not recommended post-Panda, but it's up to you) at least have your CMS generate unique titles for each page ("Blog Archive Page 1 | Sageworks", "Blog Archive Page 2 | Sageworks", etc).

[josh123]

Hey Takeshi,

Thanks for the response! How would you go about no indexing the archives? Or should I just canonical all the previous blog pages to the 1st?

[TakeshiYoung]

Hi Josh, I'm not sure what CMS you are using, but there should be some way to update the template for your archive pages, which will update all your archive pages. Just add this code in the section of the template:

name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />

[josh123]

Unfortunately we're using blogengine.net and it's not the easiest to navigate. There is a place to enter custom coding in the heading, but it doesn't specify whether it is for the archived pages or not. From what I can tell, on the specific pages, there are nofollow codes for each individual story on each archive page, but not for the archive page itself. Sorry, relatively new to this.