Duplicate meta descriptions
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Hi all,
Google webmaster point me to duplicate meta descriptions problem between pages with difference URL but have the same canonical URL.
What could be the reason?https://treato.com/ParaGard,tired/?a=s
https://treato.com/ParaGard,Tiredness/?a=s
https://treato.com/ParaGard,tired/?a=s
https://treato.com/ParaGard,Tiredness/?a=s -
Ah... I see what's happening
Basically what might be going wrong is your concerns section like here - https://treato.com/ParaGard,Side+Effects/?a=s#concerns
If you keep expanding the list, the number of reported cases goes down but the list is almost infinite. Somewhere down the line you have someone that selected "tired" instead of "tiredness" which caused the first issue. Not sure why you're getting flagged for ParaGard vs Paragard though, because you have a 301 redirect in place to catch that.
The tired vs Tiredness issue is one you need to address (consolidate similar topics through redirects or run a script to find close variations), because those differences are indexed as separate URLs. That's going to cause problems both for ranking and for user navigation/experience.
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Hi There
I'm not sure it makes sense having multiple URLs like that to being with? The content looks the same for each, why not just link to one consistent version internally?
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It seems like they don't always use the canonical in Google Search Console to use the data for the duplicate meta description and other data. I've seen this with a huge data set that we've used.
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I have the same issue, also wondering a proper fix, since whats being mentioned as a duplicate title and meta des are redirects of the same product page.
Thanks for asking this and I look forward to hearing a response.
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