I hope someone could help me here. I’m getting Page1, Page2 etc. Duplicate Content in Google and yet I’m using Yoast, with ‘Noindex subpages of archives’ checked. Could anyone point me in the right direction for a fix?
Okay… last one from me 🙂
Change the title and meta settings in Yoast, to include something unique from the pages/posts.
E.g., in the pages meta here is example of custom meta for PAGES… but you can do the same for “Taxonomies” for both category and tag pages … same idea. The last tab in Yoast used to give a list of all the custom codes you can have it generate – not sure where the hell they put that now.
PAGES:
Title: %%title%% %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Meta: %%title%%, %%excerpt%%, %%cf_keywords%%, %%page%%
Meta Keywords: %%title%%, %%cf_keywords%%for Categories
%%term_title%% Archives %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
%%category_description%% NEWS
%%name%%, %%tag%%, %%category%%, NEWSOr something like that. This solved the “duplicate” problem for us awhile back, as if the title, description are identical for all pages – they look like the same page regardless of what is *on* the page.
Same issue with running the same YouTube video on 3 different pages on your site to go with different articles, you’ll get a “duplicate content” warning – for video – but you can ignore that since it’s not related to the PAGE/POST itself. Just means it’s reading identical description of video from the vid on three different pages.
That all may or may not help … but the meta settings are worth exploring for customizing the
Oh, it’s now in a HELP drop-down top-right of the Yoast meta entry pages:
Basic Variables.
%%date%%
Replaced with the date of the post/page
%%title%%
Replaced with the title of the post/page
%%sitename%%
The site's name
%%sitedesc%%
The site's tagline / description
%%excerpt%%
Replaced with the post/page excerpt (or auto-generated if it does not exist)
%%excerpt_only%%
Replaced with the post/page excerpt (without auto-generation)
%%tag%%
Replaced with the current tag/tags
%%category%%
Replaced with the post categories (comma separated)
%%category_description%%
Replaced with the category description
%%tag_description%%
Replaced with the tag description
%%term_description%%
Replaced with the term description
%%term_title%%
Replaced with the term name
%%searchphrase%%
Replaced with the current search phrase
%%sep%%
The separator defined in your theme's wp_title() tag. AND
Advanced Variables.
%%pt_single%%
Replaced with the post type single label
%%pt_plural%%
Replaced with the post type plural label
%%modified%%
Replaced with the post/page modified time
%%id%%
Replaced with the post/page ID
%%name%%
Replaced with the post/page author's 'nicename'
%%userid%%
Replaced with the post/page author's userid
%%currenttime%%
Replaced with the current time
%%currentdate%%
Replaced with the current date
%%currentday%%
Replaced with the current day
%%currentmonth%%
Replaced with the current month
%%currentyear%%
Replaced with the current year
%%page%%
Replaced with the current page number (i.e. page 2 of 4)
%%pagetotal%%
Replaced with the current page total
%%pagenumber%%
Replaced with the current page number
%%caption%%
Attachment caption
%%focuskw%%
Replaced with the posts focus keyword
%%term404%%
Replaced with the slug which caused the 404
%%cf_<custom-field-name>%%
Replaced with a posts custom field value
%%ct_<custom-tax-name>%%
Replaced with a posts custom taxonomies, comma separated.
%%ct_desc_<custom-tax-name>%%
Replaced with a custom taxonomies description Hi Christopher,
I really do appreciate the time and support you have given me and have added this to my categories. Strange thing is the the duplicate title tags seem to be coming from categories I don’t have! lol I love WordPress
Title Template: %%term_title%% Archives %%page%% %%sep%% %%sitename%%
Meta description template: %%category_description%% NEWS
Meta keywords template: %%name%%, %%tag%%, %%category%%, NEWS
Hope this is what you meant.
Regards
Toni
You got it 🙂
If you had some stuck categories in your XML sitemap; go check the sitemap online and see if the categories are there. If not, Google likely had them cached from a prior scan when they did (oh like if you imported the default content for theme?), and you can resubmit sitemap, and then in Google Webmaster tools you can check the “fixed” boxes, and that should take care of that. Also, in Yoast you can kind of force a better rescan of sitemap by changing the number of pages to break XML sitemap into, from 1000 to 999. I do this once in awhile then switch back to 1000. I just like messing with ‘bots … 😉
