My client is using a mobile template for their local pages and the Google search console is reporting thousands of duplicate titles/meta descriptions
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So my client has 2000+ different store locations. Each location has the standard desktop location and my client opted for a corresponding mobile template for each location. Now the Google search console is reporting thousands of duplicate titles/meta descriptions. However this is only because the mobile template and desktop store pages are using the exact same title/meta description tag.
Is Google penalizing my client for this? Would it be worth it to update the mobile template title/meta description tags?
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Excellent advice. Thanks Andy!
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Hi Rosemary,
Is Google penalizing my client for this?
Does it look like there is any penalty going on?
What you need to do is add a rel=alternate from the desktop location pages to the mobile versions and a rel=canonical from the mobile page back to the desktop version. This should remedy all duplication issues and send Google the correct signals at the same time.
What Google says...
- On the desktop page, add a special link rel=”alternate” tag pointing to the corresponding mobile URL. This helps Googlebot discover the location of your site’s mobile pages.
- On the mobile page, add a link rel=”canonical” tag pointing to the corresponding desktop URL.
You can read the information you need that matches your separate page format here on Google.
This should fix all issues.
-Andy
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