: Duplicate title and meta description Recently I found out from Webmaster Tools, one of my blogs has 154 duplicate title and 156 duplicate meta description. On closer look, both URLs lead to
Recently I found out from Webmaster Tools, one of my blogs has 154 duplicate title and 156 duplicate meta description. On closer look, both URLs lead to the same blog post. One is with the date followed by the blog title and the other begins with the blog title. Example:
/2011/06/blog title.html
/blog title/
Is it something to do with the permalink settings? What should I do now?
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You should specify a preferred version of the page and use the canonical tag as this will help to remove duplicate content.
The way to use this is to include it in the <head> section of your duplicate pages and point the href to the preferred version of the page as so...
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/preferred-url.html"/>
You should ensure only your preferred pages appear in the sitemap and your internal linking structure points to these preferred links.
In an ideal world you would also 301 redirect all versions of your page to the preferred version as this would consolidate the value of the page, however this can sometimes be less practical.
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