Duplicate Page Titles For Paginated Topics In Blog

[SEOCT]

Hello,

I've just run a site audit and it has come up with a duplicate title tag issue for the topics section of our blog.

For example it is flagging that the following have the same page title.

https://blog.companyname.com/topic/topic-name

https://blog.companyname.com/topic/topic-name/page/2

How significant is this as an SEO issue and what are the ways we can go about fixing this?

I look forward to any suggestions and guidance that can be provided.

Thanks,

John

[RuthBurrReedy]

Hi John,

As long as you've implemented rel=prev and rel=next markup on your paginated content, having duplicate title tags on these pages shouldn't be a problem at all. If you're really concerned about it, you could update the title tags on subsequent pages to say e.g. "Page 2" at the end, but if you've already marked it up as paginated content it should be fine. Hope that helps!

[SEOCT]

Hi Ruth - thanks for the response! I'll look into rel=prev and rel=next markup

[RyanPinPB]

Hi Ruth, I'm getting an alert in Moz Pro's analysis of my site about my Blog having duplicate content.

https://pacificbeachhomes.com/blog/

It's because my blog shows 5 posts per page, so older blog posts spill over into "page 2" etc. . . and each of those pages has the same title and meta description.

I read that the rel="prev" and rel="next" are not used by google anymore, and I also noticed that my site is not using it.

Do you have any suggestions for my blog to avoid any duplicate content issues. maybe it's fine that the blog pages are similar?