How to fix errors and warnings on a wordpress.com hosted site ?
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Hello Mozers,
I've 18 4xx errors ,812 duplicate page content and 412 duplicate page titles with about 605 too many links warning and about 4900 notices..
My website is hosted on wordpress.com and I just do not understand how do i fix these errors . To add on, last week the errors were lesser by 150 !!
How do I get these issues fixed ? Please assist !!!
Thanks ,
VIkash
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Vikash
Thanks for the follow up! It's a little tough to say without more info - but I'll assume some of your duplicate titles are coming from paginated pages: /page/2/ ... /pages/3 etc
If this is the case, see if they allow you to add the page number to the title tags of archives
For example - page one might be "A Really Awesome Category Archive Page 1 - Dan's Blog"
Page two would be - "A Really Awesome Category Archive Page 2 - Dan's Blog" etc..
-Dan
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Hei Dan,
Thanks for taking the initiative.
I just removed few categories i felt were useless and also deleted the tag widget from the blog !! since then I am having increased number of 404 errors !! it was showing on moz dashboard that I had too many links ..hence i thought its a good idea to get rid of the tag widget and the categories with very less posts !! I normally have posts under several categories . Hence I removed the ones with very less posts !! That was it, I asked the bull,myself to hit me hard !!
I dont know how to work things out now !! moreover,wordpress.com does not allow any error fix unless their package of $ 500 a month is bought !!
I have left the errors untouched waiting for answers !!
Regards,
Vikash
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Hey There!
Let me ask - what types of pages are the duplicates showing up for? In many cases, it's just subpages ie: /page/2 etc - and these aren't as problematic.
Let me know the types of pages and I'll see if I can help from there
Thanks!
-Dan
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Ah - whoops. The more you learn, eh? I'd be interested in the differences between how the two function.
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The OP is on wordpress.com, not self-hosted wordpress, so that may not be an option. I'm asking another associate to come in and add some comments to this post.
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As a first port of all, I'd install Yoast for wordpress. It's a very powerful plugin that allows for a great deal of control and can sort duplicate content issues by automatically adding in rel="canonical" tags. There's a great a webinar here http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/advanced-wordpress-seo on seomoz.which also provides a lot of great advice for dealing with archives.
We had too many duplicate titles also, which were created when our pictures were links to themselves - new page but with same title. As a temporary measure, I set up redirects on these back to the posts' page but will go and remove these links later.
I hope this was helpful, if I got it wrong, however, I'm happy to learn!
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Hi Vikas,
Can you share some the example Error URLs ? Are your using unique titles for each post ? About 4xx error, Are you uploading images or using image URL of website ?
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hei Chad,
my site is hosted on wordpress.com and I really dont know if such packages exist on wordpress.com ..will have to check now .. my site is daily cartoon publishing site which mostly has images !! Thanks for sharing the information though .
Thanks
Vikash
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Have you tried getting some of SEO applications that WordPress offers? They have free packages that allow you to enter meta data such as the title tag to your webpage. What kind of website do you have? I work in real estate and I found out that some of our duplicate content came from our web developer not optimizing the web submission pages for visitors interested in properties.
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