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#2453 – duplicated meta title and meta description for content pagination

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Friday, 01 July 2016 12:42 UTC

evillo

Hello,

I was trying different tools to check up my seo. Most of problems are solved using sh404 but there's still a problem with joomla category view:

The category view provides paginated content and the seo checkup tools is advising that those pages contain duplicated meta title and meta description.

A solution for the duplicated meta title could be providing a different title for those pages. I know you find a great solution for paginated content (read content with page break), but for the category blog view the issue should be solved with a "page-2" added in the meta title and a canonical NEXT/prev meta.

About the duplicated meta description actually i can't find a possible solution.

What do you think about this?

thank you.

Friday, 01 July 2016 12:55 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Is this just regular Joomla views? this question is solved already, as explained (by adding a page-2) bit in the title. Please see, for instance, this page on our site.

As a matter of fact, and as you can see on the page I linked two, if you want to improve your site performance, best is probably to simple "noindex,follow" those category pages, they are just diluting your authority and your crawl budget.

Rgds

Friday, 01 July 2016 14:18 UTC

evillo

Yes, it is regular joomla views.

You sent me a link to webamp, wrong link?

Friday, 01 July 2016 14:22 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

I sent you a link to a category view on our site, which page titles are :

  <title>Releases and security | Page 2</title>

  <title>Releases and security | Page 3</title>

etc, for each page.

To go any further, we would at least need to know your site link, and a sample URLs with multiple pages without pagination in the title.
Alos, you would need to verify that this happens also with one of Joomla default template, in case your template has an override for the Pagination class.

Rgds

Friday, 01 July 2016 14:38 UTC

evillo

This is a sample url of a paginated category view:

[xxxx]

Friday, 01 July 2016 17:58 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

I am confused. I followed the link you provided and the page title for page 2 is:

  <title>Passeggiate | Pagina 3 Eventi Napoli</title>

1 - did you modified it manually?
2 - Looking at the pagination, I can see this is not the standard output, they are also missing the prev/next tags added by sh404SEF (unless you disabled that feature under the "SEO" tab of configuration.

Please test with a standard Joomla template.

Rgds

Saturday, 02 July 2016 10:13 UTC

evillo

yes i noticed, now it does have the pagination inside the title. i did not change anything.

we use YOOtheme for the template, it may be possible that as many other templates it does override standard theme class. i think nobody uses the default joomla theme.

prev next setting is enabled in sh404...

Monday, 04 July 2016 07:57 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

So all is fine then.

yes i noticed, now it does have the pagination inside the title. i did not change anything.

My best bet is caching. These are computers, if you don't get the same result, something changed somewhere.

Rgds

Monday, 04 July 2016 10:10 UTC

evillo

for the moment is working fine. i'll make few other test and let you know.

thank you.

Tuesday, 19 July 2016 05:34 UTC

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