Duplicate Title Tags
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Webmaster Tools is showing that I have 78 duplicate title tags. Here is an example of tags they deem to be duplicate:
- www.lifeinsure.com/blog/life-insurance-trusts/
- www.lifeinsure.com/blog/life-insurance-trusts
- www.lifeinsure.com/life-insurance-trusts/
I have done 301 redirects from any posts beginning with "/blog/" to "/" Any idea why this is happening?
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Hi Richard I'm really happy I could be of help to you let me know if there's anything else you need sincerely, Thomas
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Thanks, Thomas. That helps a lot.
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PS
last index of the home page
A great tool to check & have is
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
Tom
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Hi,
so it seamed to work
Have Google index the site
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1352276?hl=en
to check the last index use
cache:www.lifeinsure.com/
like this
This is Google's cache of http://www.lifeinsure.com/life-insurance-trusts/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Jun 25, 2013 18:04:43 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more
Tip: To quickly find your search term on this page, press Ctrl+F or ⌘-F (Mac) and use the find bar.
Your using
http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/
Great plug-in
Now all post point to no (/blog/ and have a / in the url
I checked
http://www.lifeinsure.com/blog/life-insurance-companies/
http://www.lifeinsure.com/insurance-company-ratings/
your site
all blog post's no longer have /blog/ in the url
Now
www.lifeinsure.com/blog/life-insurance-trusts ( no /)
&
www.lifeinsure.com/blog/life-insurance-trusts/ ( has /)
is now points to http://www.lifeinsure.com/life-insurance-trusts/ (with /)
your blog url is good as well
http://www.lifeinsure.com/blog/
because you are using the WordPress SEO plugin it should set the Canonical just check that.
Canonical
When Google introduced the canonical link element, to distinguish the “original” page from derivative pages within your site carrying the same content, they reached out to me to develop a WordPress plugin for it, and I did. Later on, canonical link elements were added to core. They work fine, with one caveat: they only work for single posts and pages, not for categories and tags, not for the homepage. The WordPress SEO plugin fixes that, and sets the correct canonical on each of those pages.
I hope I was of help,
Thomas
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