1800 dup titles in Google Webmasters, 290 in Xenu, and probably hit by August Panda

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by dtodorova, Sep 3, 2012.

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    I have tried to take care of the duplicate titles and descritptions on my website. When I started at the end of July 12, I roughly had 290 duplicate titles and so much descriptions. Our developer fixed the ones that showed:

    /help/PAGE
    /help/page

    because they were indicated as dups.
    These were roughly half of the dups at the time, lets say 100 out of 290. All others had the homepage default title. After the change, and nothing else touched, the defaults started to increase, and now a month after the "fix", all upper case URLs scenarios are the same, and the default titles pages are 1500.

    The more interesting part is that when I make a report with Screaming Frog, Xenu and a custom script a friend wrote, they all say we still have 290 dup titles, only Google Webmaster tools say they are 1500.

    On top of that I think 2 weeks after the changes we were hit by Panda 3.9.1 and our traffic dropped by 20%.

    Any thoughts will be much appeaciated.
    Thanks
     
    dtodorova, Sep 3, 2012 IP