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#3017 – Blog - Duplicate Meta Descriptions

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Wednesday, 30 November 2016 09:42 UTC
Topknotch
Hi,

I have a little problem with duplicate Meta Descriptions on my 'blog' page -  https://www.xxxx.uk/news/
I found this error whilst checking on Google Search Console, I have attached an image to show you what errors it is showing.
I am rather confused on where it is getting these errors from so would really appreciate your ideas on it.
Many thanks
Ross
Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:25 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

I just tested on the first example, but there doesn't seem to be any real issue here:

If you look at the first line, it says you have 2 pages with the same description:

https://www.xxxx.uk/news/twitter-makes-every-tweet-searchable.html

and

https://www.xxxx.uk/web-design-news/25-twitter-makes-every-tweet-searchable.html

I suspect the second one is an older URL, maybe a Joomla SEF one. It was indexed, google knows it, and then you modified it to /news/twitter-makes-every-tweet-searchable.html, which is now indexed.

Both are the same page, so they have the same description, so they may created "duplicate content", or rather "multiple URLs to same content".

But actually you have done things right, and the second one is redirected to the first one, so Google will eventually drop /web-design-news/25-twitter-makes-every-tweet-searchable.html from their results, consolidate the URLs and update their index.

Just be sure you have a redirect for all such URLs pairs, and you're good.

Rgds

 
Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:46 UTC
Topknotch
Brilliant, thanks for your help, it is annoying that the HTML improvements page on Google Search Console takes so long to update!
Thanks again
Ross
Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:33 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

Indeed, and sometimes they have bugs, which might take weeks to be fixed! Be aware that this is only the Search console display. The actual index, and ranking, is normally updated very quickly, so in real life this should not have any noticeable effect.

Closing this ticket now, feel free to open a new one as needed. If you do so, please mention this ticket number in the new one.

If you created any superadmin account for us, be sure to delete or block it now to avoid unnecessary risk in the future.

Be sure to also check out wbAMP, our new Accelerated Mobiles pages plugin for Joomla - the next big thing is SEO, direct from Google themselves!

Rgds
 
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