How do i fix my duplicate title tags
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I joined as member to this site yesterday and have found a few isuues, long page descriptions X 7 ( all now fixed ) and 3 X duplicate title tags.
The title tags duplicated are www.daygo-express.co.uk
and www.daygo-express.co.uk/sitemap/
how do i fix these issues, i am by no means a webmaster and only use simple 1&1 package as a host.
Do i need to insert robots txt?, if so can someone with knowledge writeit for me and post please. Also does the robots txt need to placed in the heder section.
many thanks
Dee
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Excellent. Glad to hear 1&1 is more manageable than I suspected.:)
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Hi Cyrus,
1&1 is not so bad this is the first issue i have had. i have added re canonical tag in the haed now so hopefully that will sort out the issue. I have also updated robots.txt to
User-agent: *
Disallow: http://www.daygo-express.co.uk/c/
Sitemap: http://www.daygo-express.co.uk/sitemap.xmlI have also denoted the urls in GWMT, with all these measures in place hopefully this will sort the problem out. please advise if you think differently.
Many thanks
Dee
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Hi Dee,
My understanding of 1&1 WebsiteBuilder is that it is extremely limited on the amount of control you enjoy in altering things like title tags, meta data, etc.
Theoretically, you could use robots.txt to block Google from crawling the sitemap, then submit an URL removal request, but in reality this is probably unnecessary.
The same goes for the two main URLs, one with the trailing slash "/" and one without. Although technically these are different URLs, in reality Google will almost always treat them the same, and not ding you for duplicate content/title tags.
So my best advice would be not worry too much about it. Glad to see you're learning some SEO and building websites. When you're up for it, you should graduate to a more advanced website platform, like Wordpress, where you can exercise a greater degree of control.
Hope this helps. Best of luck with your SEO!
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As never used that builder myself so i am not sure but while research over your question... this is something that i find! http://faq.1and1.com/applications/websitebuilder/websitebuilder_design/5.html can be useful for you!
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The problem i have is that i cannot edit the individual page titles,
I'm not sure that i am explaining this very well. I use 1&1 website builder.
can i use robots text to disallow google from indexing the unwanted pages. if so how do i do it ?
Sorry if i'm not being clear
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Simple!
download the website (in case of simple html or php website) open it in Dreamweaver and edit the titles to make it unique... if you do not have Dreamweaver you can do this by opening it in a notepad find the tag and edit it to make it unique... upload the files and you are done!
that's it!
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