Duplicate Page Titles?

[seointern]

I'm running a campaign report within SEOmoz & am getting 9 pages that appear on this report. They all happen to be our author pages www.example.com//author/admin We have multiple authors. Is there a proper way that I should take care of this?

Also as a side note, I'm using Yoast Wordpress SEO plugin, is there a setting on their I should change that will fix this issue? Or is it an issue at all?

Thanks,

BJ

[RyanKent]

Hi BJ.

Your author pages, like any other page on your site, should ideally have unique titles and content.

Suggested titles: "About: John Smith", "About: Sally Smith", etc.

You would not want a page simply named "Author Page" and have that same name for all of the pages.

[seointern]

Ryan, thanks for the response! Each of the author pages do have a unique title for that author. So the problem isn't that they are duplicating the other author pages, rather 1 author has multiple posts, making multiple pages of their content that is being duplicated. Does that make sense?

[RyanKent]

It sounds like each author page is reproducing the articles written by the author, or snippets of the article.

It's up to you how to best present the author pages for your site's visitors. I would suggest simply offering a title list of their articles. Perhaps a 100-word snippet for their latest or most popular article may be helpful as well. If you currently are having pagination due to trying to offer snippets for every article, this approach can make the pages more useful for visitors and resolve the duplicate title issue.

If you decide you like your pages as-is, or if you still have pagination after making the adjustment, adding "Page - 2" and so forth to your pages should resolve the unique title issue.