How to fix joomla duplicate page titles??
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Hello,
I have been using seomoz and sh404sef for almost a month now and can't seem to figure out my duplicate page title issue on my joomla site. I have changed everything I thought necessary but no luck. I have one page that I am trying to make dissapear from duplicate page title error and if I can figure it out i'm sure I can use same fix for the other 1,000 duplicate page titles being reported in my seomoz crawl report
I have one link that I am working with
sef url: http://www.mysite.com/contactus.html
I have used sh404sef url manager and added page title, description and keywords to this link and for 3 weeks straight now it still shows that it is duplicate page title in my seomoz crawl report
Is there something that I am missing somewhere or did i setup a bad campaign that is looking at wrong things on site? I 've attached image of my sh404sef settings for this link
Thanks in advance
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Hello Jesslyn,
Like I said before, Joomla is not one of my specialties but I'll try to help.
You need to edit the file /components/com_sh404sef/shPageRewrite.php to add the code.
How did you install joomla and what hosting provider are you using?
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Hello Dezmond and Ricardo,..
I also have the same problem with Dezmond. I got the my crawl report that there are more than 1000 duplicate page. here is the example of my duplicate page content:
http://www.myknitt.com/vmchk/Dog-Clothes/Dog-Sport-Clothes-On-Striped-Yellow-Green-DK812.html?flypage=
http://www.myknitt.com/vmchk/Dog-Clothes/Dog-Sport-Clothes-On-Striped-Yellow-Green-DK812/flypage.tpl.html?pop=0I also have the same problem with Dezmond. There is a duplicate page on contactus.
this is the blog that is written something about canonical page that can be fixed by SH404SEF. They said, it can be fixed by tweaking the code at the SH404SEF. but since I am a newbie for this SEO, I really need any guidance how to tweak the code.
http://www.cybersalt.org/joomla/canonical-urls-in-sh404sef
http://www.brucerick.com/joomlas-sh404sef-and-canonical-links.html
Can you please let me know how and where to copy paste the code of this ?
*/
// CANONICAL LINK FIX$buffer = shInsertCustomTagInBuffer( $buffer, '', 'before', '', 'first');
//CANONICAL LINK FIX - END
// all done
return $buffer;I really hope there will be a new hint for us
Thank you.
jesslynalvin - www.myknitt.com
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I'm not very familiar with jomsocial, but they probably have a way to do it with the profiles/username path. Take a look at their documentation at http://documentation.jomsocial.com/wiki/Main_Page and also the support forum http://www.jomsocial.com/forum/category/list.
After thatall you have to do is add these lines at your robots.txt file:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /profiles/This way no profiles will be indexed.
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thanks so much for response!! How exactly would I go about moving the jomsocial profiles to a new domain? Is that something i do on the backend of joomla or cpanel. I love the mynaturalhairstyle.com/profiles/username route but not sure where to start with this? Also, does this mean I have to go into every profile/page and do some manual no index robot work?
Thanks again!
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Sorry for the delay. I didn't see your answer before.
The first big problem I see in duplicate content is the way that the profiles are designed. You should noindex all the profiles because if someone don't fill up anything in the profile it is going to be exactly like any other empty profile.
There are two ways to fix that:
- create a subdomain to the profiles and noindex it. example: subdomain.mynaturalhairstyle.com/username
- move the profile path from the root domain to some thing else and noindex it. example: mynaturalhairstyle.com/profiles/username
After doing that run another crawl and we can take a look in the rest of the pages...
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Is this screenshot good enough or may you need other pages as well??
thanks
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Here is one page out of the 20 pages from crawl report....one other link i had added metadata to was the
newbies-supplies.html
I did everything i could think of in sh404sef from title, description and keywords but still popped up in crawl this week.
Thankks
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Just screenshot the report so we know which pages are getting flaged.
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Its over 20 pages....should i send the csv file or just screenshot one of the pages?? Thanks so much for your help
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Please, take a screenshot of seomoz report so we can take a look....
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