Duplicate page titles
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Hi,
I have a Joomla 2.5 site and I use categoryblogs. So I have a page with "reviews". All the reviews are shown on this page and there are about 15 pages of it. In my SEOMoz crawl result I get 71 errors ! about "duplicate titles".
How can I diminish this? I don't know how to show all the reviews in a proper way other than what I have accomplished with categoryblog.
Patrick
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PS: I found this today, which seems to be a pretty good rundown of the pros and cons of various pagination strategies: http://www.ayima.com/seo-knowledge/conquering-pagination-guide.html . Keep in mind that it doesn't take into account how limited Joomla is in this area.
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Patrick can you post the site? If you don't feel comfortable doing that you can send it to me in a private message. Please include the specific reviews page/section you mention. I'd like to have a look at how pagination is being handled, whether any rel canonical tags are being used, etc...
Without seeing the site I think the best advice I can give is sort of general:
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Have the page number included in the title tag and meta description if possible (e.g. Page # - TITLE) as Mike Davis recommends below. This can probably be accomplished with the following extension ( http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/seo-a-metadata/title-management/14747 ) though I have not had to use that specific extension personally.
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Implement rel next/prev if possible, though I have not seen any good extensions to accomplish this. The unique titles and descriptions should be fine for now if you can't implement rel next/prev.
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Ignore that SEOMoz warning next time if you have implemented either of the above solutions.
Good luck!
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Wow, that is annoying! A simple solution would be to use a SEO page title module/widget (sorry, I'm not familiar with Joomla, but I'm sure they have one) and add page numbers.
Example: ... Reviews Page One, ... Reviews Page Two, etc.
I had an old site with this same problem on a photo gallery and it solved that issue.
I hope that helps!
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