Duplicate titles / canonical / Drupal
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I have a site where there are several duplicate titles, looks like mainly based on a parameterized vs. non-parameterized version of the page. I have what appears to be a proper canonical tag, but webmaster still complains of both duplicate titles & meta descriptions. A good example (taken out of webmaster report for http://igottadrive.com) is:
/driving-tips/mirror-setup-and-use
/driving-tips/mirror-setup-and-use?inline=true
If I look at the page (in either case) there appears to be a correct canonical tag pointing to the base case. However, for some reason google is either ignoring the canonical or its not properly done.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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uwaim, what happens when you disable Page Titles and set the titles in Metatag? Metatag handles page titles, so the two modules may be stepping on each other.
Also, can you confirm the latest versions of your metatag module? They've been rolling commits, so confirm you have the latest.
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The site runs on Drupal 7 and the specific modules are:
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Page Title 7.x-2.5
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Meta Tags, 7.x-1.0-alpha4
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Global Redirect, 7.x-1.4
The dup pages (with & without parameters) seem to have correct canonical tags pointing to the basic page without parameters.
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Hello ,
Can you tell us what SEO module do you have installed ?
Basics are :The Page Title modue
http://drupal.org/project/page_title
The Meta tags module ( nodewords)
http://drupal.org/project/nodeword
And if its not already done , Global redirect ( for duplicate content ).
Once you come back with more info i might be able to help.
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