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Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by Maimonie » Fri Jun 24, 2011 2:49 pm

Hello
I use this site http://www.attracta.com
(In addition to Google Webmaster Tools.)
To analyze my site for obtaining good results in Google.
The results of the analysis i receive the following diagnosis:

Duplicate meta description tags
At -988 pages!


Duplicate title tags
At -950 pages!


A. Does that make sense?
B. If so, how do I remove the duplicate? I canceled my description of the general meta in the general settings and still I get the above result.
So what still appears to me that I have duplicates meta & titles at -988 page?
What's the problem and what the solution?

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Re: Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by sandandart » Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:01 pm

Maybe you have duplicated links to same page.

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Re: Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by Maimonie » Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:46 pm

sandandart wrote:Maybe you have duplicated links to same page.
How do i check it?

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Re: Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by Ratmil » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:20 pm

Attracta seo tool tells which these pages are.
One common reason for this is pagination.
For example you have these links:
[yoursite]/index.php?option=your_com&page=2
[yoursite]/index.php?option=your_com&page=3

These urls probably have the same title and description.

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Re: Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by Ratmil » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:22 pm

There is no other way for fixing this that using a plugin that add page number to title and description.
I guess there should be a few in JED.

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Re: Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by Ratmil » Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:42 pm

Also, I don't how truly important that is. Maybe it is not worth to fix it.

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Re: Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by cipek1981 » Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:54 am

I have the same problem :(
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Re: Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by Ratmil » Wed Jan 04, 2012 4:51 pm

I can fix your meta problems for money.
Just contact me at my web page below.

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Re: Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by Harvey51 » Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:26 pm

If anyone else hits this issue the first thing to look at, is if you have a calendar or event component installed.

I've worked with some components that have links it the calendar boxes where the field is empty, meaning hundreds and even thousands of duplicate titles and descriptions that are blank or default content. Google will find all of these duplicate links if you are not careful.
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Re: Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by RaviDatti » Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:13 pm

Maimonie wrote: A. Does that make sense?
Yes.. It will effect to your search engine ranking.
Maimonie wrote: B. If so, how do I remove the duplicate? I canceled my description of the general meta in the general settings and still I get the above result.
You should write it manually for each page. As per search engine terms each page should be have there unique meta data.

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Re: Duplicate meta description tags problem

Post by HERBCYCLOPEDIA » Sat May 23, 2015 8:41 pm

Such a big number of duplicates is not normal, try to remove your SITE META DESCRIPTION from your Joomla Global configuration page, it tends to be duplicated in most pages that do not have a meta description.


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