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    • peterdbaron
      peterdbaron last edited by

      In looking at my latest seomoz crawl, I see that I have a bunch of pages being reported as duplicate content.

      Turns out a number of my blog tags share the same <title>as pages on my site. I added a couple of images to illustrate my point.</p> <p>Blog: http://imgur.com/YlxrI</p> <p>Page: http://imgur.com/H2zyc</p> <p>Any recommendations on what I should add to my Tag titles? My pages need to rank ahead of my tags. Should I go w/something as simple as Name of Post I Boarding School Blog Tags?</p> <p>Any help is much appreciated!</p> <p>Thanks,<br />Peter </p></title>

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      • DanDeceuster
        DanDeceuster last edited by

        I don't think I quite understand. You have a website with a blog as part of it. There are pages on your website that have the same title as the tag pages of your blog, right? If that is correct, you have a few options.

        1. Do you use WordPress? If so, get the all in one seo pack plugin and you can change the format of your blog's tag page titles. You could also put a no index tag on these pages.

        2. Block your tag pages with a robots.txt file.

        Or you could do both. That would be my suggestion. Change the titles of your tags, no index the tag pages and block them with a robots.txt. I find my tag pages are pretty useless anyway so I don't care if search engines find them or not.

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        • peterdbaron
          peterdbaron @DanDeceuster last edited by

          That's right. My site, which is built on proprietary code, has a wordpress blog.

          Thanks for the rec. Here's the problem - a few of my key longtail keywords are actually tags on the blog. Any recs on how to work around them?

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          • StalkerB
            StalkerB last edited by

            Have had some success in the past using this - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-title-tag/ - but not sure if it's still supported.

            Check out Headspace2 - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headspace2/ -(NB: there are definitely plugin compatibility errors with this and WP3.1 just now) and All in One SEO - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

            Any, with a bit of tweaking, should allow you to change your tag post titles to something like "All information about %tag%"

            Eh, actually I don't think %tag% is a thing, I'll go look it up 🙂

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            • RogerGreene
              RogerGreene last edited by

              In the instance given, I would make the title of the blog page something like: "Baylor School Blog".

              Or if you're a fan of pipes: Blog | Baylor School. You get the idea.

              For individual blog posts I would "(Post Title) | Baylor School". So long as you aren't using the same post name twice, there shouldn't be any duplicate title tags.

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              • peterdbaron
                peterdbaron @RogerGreene last edited by

                Great ideas, thanks!

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                • peterdbaron
                  peterdbaron @StalkerB last edited by

                  Thanks, much appreciated!

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