Why Am I Getting Duplicate Titles/Meta Descriptions???

Discussion in 'Google' started by sammythebull, Dec 12, 2008.

  1. #1
    Just took a peek inside Webmaster Tools > Diagnostics > Content Analysis. I have an abnormally high number of duplicate titles and meta descriptions for some reason.

    The URL's that Google is pairing together are mostly the pages on the top nav bar of my site (not the category bar). Webmaster Tools shows me the following when I click on the duplicates:
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    My site's URL....
    /about/‎‎
    /about‎
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    Notice that in one instance there is a slash after the word, and in the other there isn't. However, it's only posted once on my site. The same goes for a bunch of other pages in the "Research" section on my site.

    I'd like to know,

    A) Why is this happening, and how to prevent this?
    B) Does this have an effect on my rankings in Google?

    Help needed!! Thanks.
     
    sammythebull, Dec 12, 2008 IP
  2. flatrox

    flatrox Banned

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    #2
    try to create different meta for each page
     
    flatrox, Dec 12, 2008 IP
  3. sammythebull

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    As i stated before, the problem seems to stem from the fact thay're crawling the same page twice; once with a slash and once without it, as drawn out in my above post.

    Still waiting for help....
     
    sammythebull, Dec 12, 2008 IP
  4. SGBoise

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    #4
    Sometimes you'll have the same problem with www and without it. You may have to configure your script to redirect it so that it becomes consistent. so if someone goes to /about they get redirect to /about/.

    I think google detect that.
     
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    I thought they had fixed that issue with the crawler a few years ago.
     
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  6. sammythebull

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    Would you know how I should go about doing that?
     
    sammythebull, Dec 12, 2008 IP