Duplicate Content Using Vbulletin and Vbseo

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by webdevoman, May 8, 2013.

  1. #1
    Hey everyone,

    I am having a hard time cleaning up one of my Vbull forums. I am seeing a ton of duplicate title tags and descriptions. How do I best combat this? I am using Vbseo.

    One of the contributing factors is some posts being promoted to articles and therefor being viewed as the same page being copied over to cms. I have tried blocking the category using robots.txt. I would block the entire cms but I do not want to lose the rest of the real articles.

    Here are my questions

    # - How can I block a single section in the cms without blocking the entire cms from getting crawled?


    # - What can I do to lessen the duplicate title tags and descriptions?


    One more related question - The keyword showing up most on the site I am talking about is the word "Post".. The site has nothing to do with this word at all. Is there any way possible to block a specific word from being crawled?

    Thanks everyone. I have been a website dev for many years. I just have not been able to get any real help from other forums regarding these issues so I am giving dig point a try. I have been a visitor at this site for years but have not posted. I do hope we can all help each other here.

    Cheers,
    Webdevoman
     
    webdevoman, May 8, 2013 IP