Duplicate Page Titles
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I have over 200 duplicate page titles on a site that I am working on. Does putting a date at the end of some of them make it a unique enough title?
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I think you'd want to keep your category pages in the index as these are the brand names that people are going to be searching for.
As for the the actual articles themselves - first I notice that you have articles going back to 2009. As these are date specific coupons they're not really of any value any more. I think if it was me I'd cull these and set up redirect to point any links back to the the home page.(I'd be interested to see what other think)
With so many pages, (4000+ in 2009, 6000+ in 2010) I don't think you're going to be able to easily point the articles URLs back to category pages.
As for the individual articles/offers themselves. How do these perform at the moment? How much search traffic do the individual articles get. What about the category pages?
What about inbound links? What are people linking to/sharing?
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I also have another question:
Below is what I selected as no index as a setting in my wordpress options. Not sure exactly if these are correctly checked or if it needs to be adjusted.
- <label for="head[meta][robots][noindex][category]">
noindexcategory pages</label> - <label for="head[meta][robots][noindex][tag]">
noindextag pages</label> - <label for="head[meta][robots][noindex][author]">
noindexauthor pages</label> - <label for="head[meta][robots][noindex][day]">
noindexday pages</label> - <label for="head[meta][robots][noindex][month]">
noindexmonth pages</label> - <label for="head[meta][robots][noindex][year]">
noindexyear pages</label> - <label for="head[meta][robots][noindex][sub]">
noindexsub pages</label>
- <label for="head[meta][robots][noindex][category]">
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The blog is a Coupon site that does coupon matchups for grocery stores. The content is not necessarily important to appear on the index I am assuming. Here is an example of a post http://www.savingcentswithsense.net/2012/02/frys-grocery-store-deals-2127/
It is mainly grocery product listed with some links associated with coupons to print online...
Any suggestions on how to handle these? Does it hurt the site in rankings to no index them?
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I'd suggest that they'd probably want to be a little more different than that. The idea is to make sure that search engines/people can easily understand and the correct page to return in the search results.
Can I ask why you've got so many and what the titles currently are?
Do you want all of these pages to appear in the index? Do they have content worth indexing?
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