Duplicate Titles being shown for rel=prev / next paginated pages
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Hello
My duplicate titles report is full of paginated pages eg
www.roger-bot.com/rogers-diary/sites-ive-crawled
www.roger-bot.com/rogers-diary/sites-ive-crawled?p2
www.roger-bot.com/rogers-diary/sites-ive-crawled?p3
www.roger-bot.com/rogers-diary/sites-ive-crawled?p4
www.roger-bot.com/rogers-diary/sites-ive-crawled?p5
www.roger-bot.com/rogers-diary/sites-ive-crawled?p6This would create 5 duplicate titles in the moz report
Is there a quick way to filter these out?
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Thanks for your response. Blocking Roger-bot looks like it might be a good idea. Will this affect the DA calculation?
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Hi Andrew!
Thanks so much for the great question! When it comes to duplicate titles being flagged in your Site Crawl report, our tool is designed to only flag titles that are an exact match. We won't flag any pages that have only a partial match or that have just a bit of overlapping.
As far as filtering them out of your Site Crawl report, I would recommend using the search bar at the top of your Site Crawl section to search for pages with pagination in the URL. You can use this search part to search/filter by complete URL or partial URL. Once you've sorted and/or filtered out these pages, you can ignore those issues if it's not within your SEO efforts to update those titles. That way they don't end up being flagged with each additional crawl. You can also unignore issues at any time if you decide you want to work on these at a later date.
If you don't want rogerbot to crawl these paginated pages at all, you can block him from those pages using a disallow directive in your robots.txt file, as well, which may be an option for you depending on your SEO and overall site strategy.
If you'd like us to look into this further and provide more feedback and/or troubleshooting tips, feel free to send an email on over to help@moz.com with some examples of the pages you're working with and we'll be sure to look into it!
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I've just found the same problem with my Wordpress site. The answer is to add the %%page%% variable to the page title field so the pages then appear with their own number rather than as a duplicate page. This explains it a bit more:
https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-do-i-fix-duplicate-meta-tags/
Hope this helps!
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