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Hi Keri

No, never resolved. Thanks for the suggestion!

Regards

Alex

That's the other odd thing - I'm not getting any errors for duplicate page content, just for duplicate page titles.

Hi Jeffrey

I have Yoast SEO set up to do the same, from when I first installed it last year. The /page/X code is also showing that the pages are noindex, follow.

The odd things here are 1) Google Webmaster Tools is not picking this up as an error, only SEOMoz crawl, 2) the error only shows since 1 Feb.

Hi

I have a Wordpress site using the Wordpress SEO plugin by Yoast. Everything appears to be fine except that on 1 Feb SEOMoz crawl suddenly picked up a bunch of errors.

The errors are duplicate page titles, and these exist only for the mysite.com/page/X pages.

I can't find any setting in Yoast that looks wrong or tells me how to fix this.

The pages are also dynamically canonicalizing to themselves - not sure if this makes any difference although I don't know how this is happening.

Does anyone know how to fix this duplicate title error?

Alex

Thanks Edward

Hi Vahe

Thanks for the response, and the article link - I'll take a look at that later.

However, I think you've misunderstood the situation. The content is not hidden - it's clearly visible and crawlable at the bottom of the page. However, it's placed in a div and that div is loaded immediately after the header, through the use of javascript.

I'm no javascript expert but Everest Poker appears to hvae commented the function out, and PokerStars appears to have removed it altogether.

If that is, in fact, what they've done (and I'm not misreading the code, which is possible), then my question is, does this 'trick' of placing text lower in the page, but telling spiders to crawl it first no longer work.

Hope that clears things up.

Alex

Hi

Apologies beforehand for any minor forum transgressions - this is my first post.

I'm redesigning my blog and I have a question re static homepage content.

It used to be common practice in the online gambling sector (and possibly others) to have a block of 'SEO copy' at the footer of the homepage.

To 'trick Google' into thinking it was directly underneath the header, web devs would use javascript to instruct the html to load the div with the SEO copy first.

The logic was that this allowed for the prime real estate of the page to be used for conversion and sales, while still having a block of relevant copy to tell the spiders what the page was about, and to provide deep links into the site.

I attended a seminar just over a year ago at which some notable SEOs said that Google had probably worked this one out but it was impossible to tell. However, I've recently noticed that Everest Poker has what I think is the code commented out, and on PokerStars I can't find it at all (even in the includes).

I would be happy to post the Everest code but, while I've read the etiquette, I'm not 100% whether this is allowed.

So my question is... for the blog I'm redesigning, do I still need to follow this practice? I would prefer search engines saw some static intro text describing the site, rather than the blog posts, the excerpts of which will probably be canonicalized to the actual post pages to avoid duplication issues. But I would prefer this static content to appear below the fold.

What is current best practice here?

Alex

I've been a pro member for about 6 months and I've only just discovered Q&A! I must have seen it before - just didn't register. Looking forward to using this forum a lot in the next few months.