Duplicate Page Titles

[jwanner]

On our site, we have summary pages for our blog and articles section.  We have used both the rel="canonical" & Use rel="next" and rel="prev" links to indicate the relationship between component URLs.  However, in the SEOmoz tool and also in google analytics we still get these pages marked as errors for duplicate page titles.  Do we just have to accept that they are always going to pull those as errors, but know that we have done everything we can?  Or is there something else I can do?

[BruceA]

Have you physicaly checked the pages reported.  It is really easy to get a duplicate with working on a large site, especially if common themes are on the site and therefore a page title can easily be duplicated in error

Let us know

Bruce

[ErinMcCaul]

Hi there! Thanks for reaching out! My name is Erin, and I'm on the Help Team here at Moz. Pages are considered to have duplicate titles only if their titles are exact matches. Like duplicate content, canonical versions should be considered, but not pages that refer to the canonical version. Additionally, our crawler only recognizes rel="canonical", but not rel="next" or rel="prev". So, if your duplicate page titles have rel="next" or rel="prev" links, that could explain why you're still seeing these errors.

I hope this helps, and if you have any other questions feel free to shoot us an email at help@moz.com!

Cheers,

Erin

[kirmeliux]

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[danwebman]

Hi Erin,

I have a similar problem with HubSpot they have Page Titles all the same which we an only set once for Blog Topics. So all the Blog Topics are "Know-How Makes the Difference" (Marketing!).

Hubspot then set each Topic page's canonical link to point to the main blog page, however Moz picks up that all of the topic pages have duplicate titles.

Does this effect ranking in any way? and is it right that Moz points this out since the canonical link is set?

Any clarity here would be much appreciated.

Dave