Duplicate Page Content and Titles from Weebly Blog

[CRMI]

Anyone familiar with Weebly that can offer some suggestions?

I ran a crawl diagnostics on my site and have some high priority issues that appear to stem from Weebly Blog posts.  There are several of them and it appears that the post is being counted as "page content" on the main blog feed and then again when it is tagged to a category.  I hope this makes sense, I am new to SEO and this is really confusing.

Thanks!

[MattAntonino]

Yeah, you need to setup either canonicals or a custom robots.txt for this. Unfortunately that's not super easy in Weebly.

I believe some of their templates have a "header code" section that you can edit. If you have that for each blog post (NOT the overall site settings) then just add your canonical to each one.  The canonical should be the main blog post permalink.  This will tell Google that all the other versions aren't the ones you want to "count."

I'd have to find a client with a Weebly to login & check it myself but I do believe you can edit these page by page. Let me know if you want me to take a deeper look.

[CRMI]

I reached out to Weebly and their response was "Yes you can add canonical reference in the header window under the setting tab in the SEO section"  So it looks like this would be applied and the site level versus the page or post level.  I did open the blog posting area and there is only a spot for a category, permalink, seo post title and seo post description. Looks like there isn't  much I can do at this point.

[gatsbytm]

I have the same issue. Since I only wrote 2 posts I am considering creating a page called Blog, then under this creating pages for each blog post, rather than use the blog area. Since I post about once a month this should be ok. That would be a work around.