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Hello WA Family, I trust everyone is well. I wanted to see if anyone knows why my website is producing duplicate page titles.
I did a seo test on my site and it is sayi
I'm not sure I can explain this without making it sound overcomplicated, sorry!
Your REAL post/page titles are solely controlled by YOU.
At a guess, you may be talking about what initially appears to be "duplicate titles" in Google Search Console.
However, if you look closely at the titles in Google Search Console you'll typically see another word in brackets just after the title:
(tag) (feed) (category) (author)
Google works differently from us humans, so often there are many different "versions" of posts/pages created by various SITEMAPS.
It's not actually a big issue, but Google has a "crawl budget" for every website that they visit.
So, they will crawl every single post/page on your website (or as many as they can) when the "Google Bots" visit your website.
That being said, the more "irrelevant" posts/pages you have marked as "index", the more you are wasting the Google crawl budget, i.e. they may not crawl new post/pages immediately when the "Google Bots" visit your website.
This also explains the "Discovered - Not Yet Indexed" post/pages you'll see in the "INDEXING" section of Google Search Console.
Basically, Google knows about your new articles, but they haven't indexed them yet because they didn't have "time" on their last visit because they spent a lot of time crawling "irrelevant pages".
Don't worry, for "discovered - not yet indexed" the Google bots will come back and visit them again, and will index them if they deem they are suitable to be included in their index.
(Crawled - Not Yet Indexed IS an issue, this means that the Google Bots HAVE crawled those articles, but they didn't deem them suitable to be included in their index, e.g. thin content, content too similar to what's already on your website, Google believes there isn't any interest in that subject, etc.)
This is also why I always mark my cateogries and tags in WordPress as NO INDEX.
I don't want to waste my "crawl budget" on irrelevant pages.
Have a check on Google Search Console first and see if the "duplicate titles" contain one of the above words in brackets.
Realistically, you DON'T want the (tag) (feed) (category) (author) versions to be indexed, you want the REAL urls of your posts/pages to be indexed.
It doesn't have any impact on the ranking and SEO of your website's articles by the way, so you're not suffering, losing out, or being penalized for having these.
As I say, it just "wastes crawl budget", so some of your articles may not be getting indexed straight away.
Does this Make Sense?
If not, I'll try to simplify it a bit more (but basically check if the "duplicate titles" have (tag) (feed) (category) (author) after them.
Partha
There are a few common reasons for duplicate titles:
Content Management Systems (CMS): Some CMS platforms may automatically generate duplicate titles if pages share similar templates or settings.
Manual Mistakes: Human error can also lead to duplicate titles when creating or updating content.
Pagination: If your site uses pagination for long lists of items, like product pages, the titles for each page in the series may look similar.
URL Parameters: Sometimes, URL parameters can result in different URLs with the same title.
Which site are you referring to and whose SEO test were you using?
Without knowing the answers to those two points, I would only be guessing.
Though you may find the following forum chat helpful: https://moz.com/community/q/topic/50230/duplicate-page-and-title-issues
Hope this helps you.
Did you find that forum chat helpful at all?
That site is like all of the others that serve up canned reports, as the script used to provide these reports, all come from the same resource: SeOpTimer dot com, so I wouldn't be so quick to believe unless you had a method of using another totally different script to see if that tool stated the same thing.
Either way, that forum chat may be the help you need.
Hello there, I looked through the form, but found it a little difficult to find the answer. Thank you though.
Did the report show you an example of your duplicate header or was it stating that you have used H1 tag more than once on each post?
H1 is only meant to ever be used once, and therefore using H2, H3, H4, and H5 are meant to be used in the body of your post.
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Why is my website producing duplicate page titles?
Hello WA Family, I trust everyone is well. I wanted to see if anyone knows why my website is producing duplicate page titles.
I did a seo test on my site and it is sayi
Go to SEMRUSH to check for website errors. Your post, page, category or tag should not have the same title. If not, it will become duplicate page titles.
Meta descriptions also must be individual, cannot have same meta descriptions for post, page, category and tag. That is what I learned from SEMRUSH.
I made a lot of these mistakes, takes months to clear all errors.
I'm not sure I can explain this without making it sound overcomplicated, sorry!
Your REAL post/page titles are solely controlled by YOU.
At a guess, you may be talking about what initially appears to be "duplicate titles" in Google Search Console.
However, if you look closely at the titles in Google Search Console you'll typically see another word in brackets just after the title:
(tag) (feed) (category) (author)
Google works differently from us humans, so often there are many different "versions" of posts/pages created by various SITEMAPS.
It's not actually a big issue, but Google has a "crawl budget" for every website that they visit.
So, they will crawl every single post/page on your website (or as many as they can) when the "Google Bots" visit your website.
That being said, the more "irrelevant" posts/pages you have marked as "index", the more you are wasting the Google crawl budget, i.e. they may not crawl new post/pages immediately when the "Google Bots" visit your website.
This also explains the "Discovered - Not Yet Indexed" post/pages you'll see in the "INDEXING" section of Google Search Console.
Basically, Google knows about your new articles, but they haven't indexed them yet because they didn't have "time" on their last visit because they spent a lot of time crawling "irrelevant pages".
Don't worry, for "discovered - not yet indexed" the Google bots will come back and visit them again, and will index them if they deem they are suitable to be included in their index.
(Crawled - Not Yet Indexed IS an issue, this means that the Google Bots HAVE crawled those articles, but they didn't deem them suitable to be included in their index, e.g. thin content, content too similar to what's already on your website, Google believes there isn't any interest in that subject, etc.)
This is also why I always mark my cateogries and tags in WordPress as NO INDEX.
I don't want to waste my "crawl budget" on irrelevant pages.
Have a check on Google Search Console first and see if the "duplicate titles" contain one of the above words in brackets.
Realistically, you DON'T want the (tag) (feed) (category) (author) versions to be indexed, you want the REAL urls of your posts/pages to be indexed.
It doesn't have any impact on the ranking and SEO of your website's articles by the way, so you're not suffering, losing out, or being penalized for having these.
As I say, it just "wastes crawl budget", so some of your articles may not be getting indexed straight away.
Does this Make Sense?
If not, I'll try to simplify it a bit more (but basically check if the "duplicate titles" have (tag) (feed) (category) (author) after them.
Partha
There are a few common reasons for duplicate titles:
Content Management Systems (CMS): Some CMS platforms may automatically generate duplicate titles if pages share similar templates or settings.
Manual Mistakes: Human error can also lead to duplicate titles when creating or updating content.
Pagination: If your site uses pagination for long lists of items, like product pages, the titles for each page in the series may look similar.
URL Parameters: Sometimes, URL parameters can result in different URLs with the same title.
Which site are you referring to and whose SEO test were you using?
Without knowing the answers to those two points, I would only be guessing.
Though you may find the following forum chat helpful: https://moz.com/community/q/topic/50230/duplicate-page-and-title-issues
Hope this helps you.
Did you find that forum chat helpful at all?
That site is like all of the others that serve up canned reports, as the script used to provide these reports, all come from the same resource: SeOpTimer dot com, so I wouldn't be so quick to believe unless you had a method of using another totally different script to see if that tool stated the same thing.
Either way, that forum chat may be the help you need.
Hello there, I looked through the form, but found it a little difficult to find the answer. Thank you though.
Did the report show you an example of your duplicate header or was it stating that you have used H1 tag more than once on each post?
H1 is only meant to ever be used once, and therefore using H2, H3, H4, and H5 are meant to be used in the body of your post.
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Hello WA Family,
I wanted to see if there are any updates to the steps to take to optimize your blog for a specific keyword.
When I first joined wealthy affiliate
Hi - the purpose of Alt Text is to improve accessibility by enabling screen readers to read out the text for visually-impaired users.
It should literally describe the image so that anybody with a visual impairment knows what the picture is showing.
It's not a place to add your keyword, unless your keyword happens to also describe the image.
So, for example, if your keyword was "how to lose weight" and the image was a bowl of fruit, your Alt Text would describe the bowl of fruit.
Because if you added "how to lose weight" as the Alt Text, how would a visually impaired person know that it was a bowl of fruit?
And, if watching any webinars, ensure they are up to date, as some of them on this subject are over 5 years old.
Another resource checklist here
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/blog-seo-tips-optimize-your-blog-posts-for-seo/
A couple of Jay's live webinars Old Content Optimization Strategies Preparing Your Content for Traffic
Are there any updates to optimizing a blog post?
Hello WA Family,
I wanted to see if there are any updates to the steps to take to optimize your blog for a specific keyword.
When I first joined wealthy affiliate
Hi - the purpose of Alt Text is to improve accessibility by enabling screen readers to read out the text for visually-impaired users.
It should literally describe the image so that anybody with a visual impairment knows what the picture is showing.
It's not a place to add your keyword, unless your keyword happens to also describe the image.
So, for example, if your keyword was "how to lose weight" and the image was a bowl of fruit, your Alt Text would describe the bowl of fruit.
Because if you added "how to lose weight" as the Alt Text, how would a visually impaired person know that it was a bowl of fruit?
And, if watching any webinars, ensure they are up to date, as some of them on this subject are over 5 years old.
Another resource checklist here
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/blog-seo-tips-optimize-your-blog-posts-for-seo/
A couple of Jay's live webinars Old Content Optimization Strategies Preparing Your Content for Traffic
Hello WA Family, I wanted to see if anyone has any recommendations for a good social sharing app for wordpress?
I personally use Grow Social, that's just what works for me personally, but, I have played around with Sassy Social and Social Rocket as well previously.
Choose the best one that suits your needs in terms of how many social accounts you have.
Or how you would like your social contact icons to appear on your website.
You could use plugins such as Sassy Social, Grow Social, or Social Rocket.
Plugins and add new, input keywords, install, and activate.
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What is a good social sharing app for wordpress?
Hello WA Family, I wanted to see if anyone has any recommendations for a good social sharing app for wordpress?
I personally use Grow Social, that's just what works for me personally, but, I have played around with Sassy Social and Social Rocket as well previously.
Choose the best one that suits your needs in terms of how many social accounts you have.
Or how you would like your social contact icons to appear on your website.
You could use plugins such as Sassy Social, Grow Social, or Social Rocket.
Plugins and add new, input keywords, install, and activate.
See more comments
Hi WA Family,
I trust everyone is well.
I wanted to see what is a good amount of blogs to post a day?
Is there a penalty for posting too many?
Thank you
If you want a quicker result then you can posts 1 article per days.
However,
Ideal is 3 posts per week, when you see results and get motivation for then you can posts one article a day or you can hired content writers.
The recommendation is to keep updating blogs 2 - 3 posts weekly for the foreseeable future. Initially, you may post a lot. Obviously, the less you post, the longer it takes.
i think you can only index a maximum of 200 per day with google search console...
so that may limit you....
but remember to think of any subscribers who may get a message each time you publish a post - how would you feel getting tons of emials per day...how long would it take before you hit hte unsubscribe....
How many blog should a person post a day?
Hi WA Family,
I trust everyone is well.
I wanted to see what is a good amount of blogs to post a day?
Is there a penalty for posting too many?
Thank you
If you want a quicker result then you can posts 1 article per days.
However,
Ideal is 3 posts per week, when you see results and get motivation for then you can posts one article a day or you can hired content writers.
The recommendation is to keep updating blogs 2 - 3 posts weekly for the foreseeable future. Initially, you may post a lot. Obviously, the less you post, the longer it takes.
i think you can only index a maximum of 200 per day with google search console...
so that may limit you....
but remember to think of any subscribers who may get a message each time you publish a post - how would you feel getting tons of emials per day...how long would it take before you hit hte unsubscribe....
Go to SEMRUSH to check for website errors. Your post, page, category or tag should not have the same title. If not, it will become duplicate page titles.
Meta descriptions also must be individual, cannot have same meta descriptions for post, page, category and tag. That is what I learned from SEMRUSH.
I made a lot of these mistakes, takes months to clear all errors.