Duplicate titles and descriptions problem?
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We had an old site that used the urls for items site.com/32423432 we changed that to site.com/item name
The old stuff has gone away and we have 301 redirects up. For some reason we are getting hit with duplicate titles on those pages and duplicate meta tags.
The site relaunch was in November and we have a had a few problems but this just started showing up in the last week after having gone down.
Any thoughts on a fix?
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I am sure on the 301. I use http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/ to check and it shows 301. I checked with and without the trailing slash.
The sitemap is created and submitted everyday.
The old urls are not accessible anymore.
I am just stumped.
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Hmmm, are you positive its sending a 301 response code and not just redirecting? I've seen that be an issue before.
Also make sure you are testing the redirects with and without the trailing slash.
I would update the sitemap with the new urls and if possible, block the old url structure via robots.txt
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It has been four months, so I know it has been crawled. The pages don't exist any longer so I don't know where I would put canonical.
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Wait for Google to recrawl the website and update the index. You can also set up canonical url for them although the 301 should be sufficient.
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The pages are item pages. They are all being 301ed. Why is Google showing them as duplicate when they are being 301ed?
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What are the pages that have duplicate titles/metas? If its the pages that are being 301ed to the new URLs, you should be fine.
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