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Hi there,

Can anyone answer whether having duplicate title tags on the blog listing page (e.g.https://blog.companyname.com/)  and the blog date archive pages (e.g.https://blog.companyname.com/archive/2017/10) is an issue?

If so why is it an issue and what are the best practices of dealing with this?

Thanks!

John

Hello,

We're building out a small number of pages for the US in a sub-folder .com/us. The idea is to show US specific pages to users in that location. However, we also have a number of pages which we will not be creating for the US as they're not relevant.

I am planning on geo-targeting the US folder to instruct the search engines that this subfolder should appear in the US SERPS but since it isn't an exact science, there is a chance that US visitors may land on these non-us pages which could potentially give them a bad user experience.

What should we do in instances where a US user lands on a non-us page with no equivalent page?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Hello,

If we publish a blog post with a url which accidentally contains a number at the end (blog.companyname.com/subject-title-0), is it best-practice to update the URL (e.g. to blog.companyname.com/subject-title) and put in a 301 re-direct from the old to the new one or should it simply be left as is?

I've read that 301's lose link equity and relevance so is it really worth re-directing for the sake of a cleaner url?

Thanks for your input!

John

Hello,

I've just run a site audit and it has come up with a duplicate title tag issue for the topics section of our blog.

For example it is flagging that the following have the same page title.

https://blog.companyname.com/topic/topic-name

https://blog.companyname.com/topic/topic-name/page/2

How significant is this as an SEO issue and what are the ways we can go about fixing this?

I look forward to any suggestions and guidance that can be provided.

Thanks,

John