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SMF Support => SMF 2.0.x Support => Topic started by: mehrtadbir on February 20, 2013, 03:57:37 PM

Title: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: mehrtadbir on February 20, 2013, 03:57:37 PM
Hello

report of my google webmaster :

HTML Improvements Last updated Feb 18, 2013
Addressing the following may help your site's user experience and performance.
Meta description   Pages
Duplicate meta descriptions   3,267
Long meta descriptions   0
Short meta descriptions   4,817
Title tag   Pages
Missing title tags   15
Duplicate title tags   12,261
Long title tags   0
Short title tags   0
Non-informative title tags   0
Non-indexable content   Pages
We didn't detect any issues with non-indexable content on your site.

(https://www.simplemachines.org/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.picofile.com%2Ffile%2F7664838595%2Fdublicate_page.jpg&hash=0fd930ff2529b568a53090888b89a75ab8f802c5)

Is this Mod useful to solve this problem?
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1644

My forum is a folder of joomla
http://irmeta.com is joomla and http://irmeta.com/meta/index.php is SMF

thanks

Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: Kindred on February 20, 2013, 04:15:55 PM
Well, first of all... the canoncial tag is already a standard part of SMF 2.0.x


but it looks like google is trying to catalog your wap pages as separate form your standard pages - which it should not be doing.
Actually, you should probably use robots.txt to tell google (and others) NOT to catalog the WAP pages
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: mehrtadbir on February 22, 2013, 06:30:34 PM
Thank you for your attention.

I have 11,657 Duplicate title tags error at the moment.

I have three categories of error
1- Wap
2- Another page of a topic
3- Same Url with html and without html
Of course , Wap is the most

my google page rank was reduced to 1.

Please help me  what I do to fix this problem exactly?

Quote from: Kindred on February 20, 2013, 04:15:55 PM
Actually, you should probably use robots.txt to tell google (and others) NOT to catalog the WAP pages

What command line  in robot.txt solve this problem?

thanks
(https://www.simplemachines.org/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.picofile.com%2Ffile%2F7667409993%2Fdublicate_page_1.jpg&hash=7ba2bdc2c529937d6cecf7932027ebbcc7663305)
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: Kindred on February 22, 2013, 06:44:55 PM
oh, you have the silly "sef" turned on, don't you?   turn that off. Having html at the end of the url does nothing and just confuses matters.
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: mehrtadbir on February 22, 2013, 07:11:50 PM
Please tell me what should I do?
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: Kindred on February 22, 2013, 10:04:47 PM
turn off the sef urls in server settings
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: mehrtadbir on February 23, 2013, 05:08:29 AM
I've done it.
I've disabled this option
"Search engine friendly URLs"
Apache/Lighttpd only!

90% of my problems Duplicate title tags is one topic with two Url 
for example :
1) http://mysite.com/index.php/topic,8776.0.html
2) http://mysite.com/index.php?topic=8776.0;wap2

Now that I got Disable Search engine friendly URLs It does not make I have a topic with 3 url ?
for example :
1) http://mysite.com/index.php/topic,8776.0.html
2) http://mysite.com/index.php?topic=8776.0;wap2
3) http://mysite.com/index.php?topic=8776.0

Please Help
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: Kindred on February 23, 2013, 07:19:36 AM
If you have actually turned OFF the SEF URLs, the #1 should no longer be used on your site.
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: mehrtadbir on February 23, 2013, 02:22:37 PM
How can I be sure that I have turned OFF SEF URLs ?
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: Kindred on February 23, 2013, 02:41:31 PM
is the "search engine friendly URLs" box unchecked?

What other mods do you have installed?
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: mehrtadbir on February 23, 2013, 03:38:52 PM
These are the relevant MODs and I have not installed any SEF MODs
1.    Google Tagged    2.0    
2.    SEO Sitemap    2.2.1  (Not using in Google Webmaster)   
3.    Sitemap    2.2.0    (Used in google webmaster)
4.    Tagging System SMFSIMPLE    1.0    
5.    More Spiders    1.2    
6.    Anti-SID(PHPSESSID) canonical tag    0.6    

is the "search engine friendly URLs" box unchecked?  yes

But I was going to use this MOD http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3082






Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: Kindred on February 23, 2013, 03:46:36 PM
Well, please note, I did not ask for "the relevent mods" I asked what mods you had installed...

As for the duplication of wap versus non-wap...       As I said, that should be handled by the canonical tags...  so maybe that anti-ssid one is messing with you.
On the other hand... you can stop google from even bothering with them using robots.txt to prevent the search engines from hitting the wap urls at all (since they actually are duplicate content)
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: mehrtadbir on February 23, 2013, 05:19:25 PM
My portal is http://irmeta.com   It is joomla
My forum is http://irmeta.com/meta/index.php

All MOds are :
1.    Similar Topics    0.6    
2.    Google Tagged    2.0    
3.    SEO Sitemap    2.2.1    
4.    SMF 2.0.4 Update    1.0    
5.    Sitemap    2.2.0    
6.    SMF 2.0.3 Update    1.0    
7.    CSS Message Boxes    1.1    
8.    Google Search Your Site    2.0    
9.    Tagging System SMFSIMPLE    1.0    
10.    Force Topic Read On Login Mod    2.1    
11.    More Spiders    1.2    
12.    Drafts    1.1.4    
13.    Recount Member Posts    1.0.2    
14.    Good Post/Bad Post Mod    2.0.4    
15.    Welcome Back    1.0    
16.    Google Analytics Code    1.4    
17.    SimpleAds    1.0.1    
18.    Anti-SID(PHPSESSID) canonical tag    0.6    
19.    [BBCode] Overline    1.0    
20.    Negative Text BBCode    1.3    
21.    [BBCode] Blink    1.0    
22.    [BBCode] Dotted Underline    1.0    
23.    Tidy Child Boards    1.4    
24.    Downloads System    1.5.2    
25.    SMFShop    3.2.1    
26.    Karma Description Mod    2.7.1    
27.    SimplePortal    2.3.5    

Please explain more if possible .
1)
Quote from: Kindred on February 23, 2013, 03:46:36 PM
so maybe that anti-ssid one is messing with you.
Anti-SID(PHPSESSID) canonical tag    0.6    is good or bad for me ?

2)
Quote from: Kindred on February 23, 2013, 03:46:36 PM
On the other hand... you can stop google from even bothering with them using robots.txt to prevent the search engines from hitting the wap urls at all (since they actually are duplicate content)
I'm using default .Htaccess Joomla 2.5 and only I've added lines below
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ /meta/index.php?action=sitemap;xml

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^irmeta\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://irmeta.com/$1 [R=301,L]


3)
Can this link help me?  https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: Kindred on February 23, 2013, 05:48:00 PM
I don't think that you are carefully reading what I am posting.

I said you need a robots.txt, not htaccess.
include the following lines

Disallow: *wap
Disallow: *wap2

Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: mehrtadbir on February 23, 2013, 06:28:33 PM
Oh
really, I am wondering .
It may be the result of fatigue.
Anyway, I'm sorry.
I'll do it. thanks.
Title: Re: Pages with duplicate title tags
Post by: mehrtadbir on May 26, 2013, 09:18:37 PM
Quote from: mehrtadbir on February 20, 2013, 03:57:37 PM
Hello

report of my google webmaster :

HTML Improvements Last updated Feb 18, 2013
Addressing the following may help your site's user experience and performance.
Meta description   Pages
Duplicate meta descriptions   3,267
Long meta descriptions   0
Short meta descriptions   4,817
Title tag   Pages
Missing title tags   15
Duplicate title tags   12,261
Long title tags   0
Short title tags   0
Non-informative title tags   0
Non-indexable content   Pages
We didn't detect any issues with non-indexable content on your site.

(https://www.simplemachines.org/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.picofile.com%2Ffile%2F7664838595%2Fdublicate_page.jpg&hash=0fd930ff2529b568a53090888b89a75ab8f802c5)

Is this Mod useful to solve this problem?
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1644

My forum is a folder of joomla
http://irmeta.com is joomla and http://irmeta.com/meta/index.php is SMF

thanks

My HTML Improvements , today

HTML Improvements Last updated May 23, 2013
Addressing the following may help your site's user experience and performance.
Meta description   Pages
Duplicate meta descriptions   2,665
Long meta descriptions   0
Short meta descriptions   5,501
Title tag   Pages
Missing title tags   2
Duplicate title tags   3,006
Long title tags   0
Short title tags   0
Non-informative title tags   0
Non-indexable content   Pages
We didn't detect any issues with non-indexable content on your site.


What do you think about my robots.txt (http://irmeta.com/robots.txt) ?
Please guide me