Anyone else ever have problems w/ the Google Webmaster Tools -> HTML Suggestions -> Duplicate Content? I've had a few links that Google finds with duplicate titles/metas - however, the pages it references BOTH point to the same page! (e.g. page1 and page2?previous )... somehow Google seems to be viewing them as separate, but they both point to the same page. I'd prefer to fix this -- so for now, I've edited the titles and metas so that it will at least see new info., but this seems slightly ridiculous. Thoughts?
Maybe putting the canonical tag would help your site, it would basically note bots that a page is not the same with other page.. Search on how to implement it.
I have seen many duplicated titles in some of my site but most of them cannot be fixed anyway. How could you fix when they said the duplicated are "Website Title - Page XX". I do not understand why Googlebots have count all inner pages in Wordpress as duplicated. It has to be Title + page number as always. They have been counted because the only different part is page number while most of the rest title looking the same. weird.
I really like resolution - and sharing it seems even better - so, here's what I found out: google WM tools has a little trick: under WM Tools -> Site Configuration -> Settings: there's a Parameter handling area which allows one to define how google will (or will not) index/search your site. There, it's possible to add a "previous" and "next" parameter set to ignore - and thus google should ignore any url's w/ ?previous or ?next in them... thus preventing duplicate content errors. I'm not 100% it will work, but I've implemented it and will see how it goes. Thanks again for the feedback! -Cheers.
On my webmaster tools it reports that "/" and "index.php" have the same data, which is correct since they are the same page. Seems silly that they would report this as an "error", is there anything I can do about it?