Duplicate Content
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Crawl Diagnostics has returned several issues that I'm unsure how to fix. I'm guessing it's a canonical link issue but not entirely sure...
Duplicate Page Content/Titles
On a website (http://www.smselectronics.co.uk/market-sectors) with 6 market sectors but each pull the same 3 pages as child pages - certifications, equipment & case studies.
On each products section where the page only shows X amount of items but there are several pages to fit all the products this creates multiple pages.
There is also a similar pagination problem with the Blogs (auto generated date titles & user created SEO titles) & News listings.
Blog Tags also seem to generate duplicate pages with the same content/titles as the parent page. Are these particularly important for SEO or is it more important to remove the duplication by deleting them?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Afraid I don't have any experience with Processwire. I would try looking through their modules/plug-ins to see if there is something for pagination tags. If don't have any luck there, I would try contacting their support or forums.
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Thanks for taking the time to reply. This site is built on the ProcessWire CMS platform thus the multiple pages are automatically generated if there are over a set number of items on the product or news pages so there is nowhere to include pagination tags. Can you suggest any alternative ideas?
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I'll see what I can help with:
For the market sectors, if you don't have unique content for each of the child pages, why have them duplicated under each parent category (are there plans to add unique content)? You could change the structure of that menu box to just include links to certifications, equipment and case studies and then put them under their own pages instead of duplicated under each market sector.
The products page section needs the pagination tags not canonical tags. Rel="next" and rel="prev" tags for your series. The canonical tag should go on the view all page if there is one.
The blogs doesn't sound like a pagination problem at all, but a title problem. If there is some setting in your CMS you should be able to customize how your title structure works for both article pages, category pages, archive pages, etc. Change the structure to set-up unique names. Or if they are not important pages (ex. author archives) throw a "noindex, follow" tag on them. Again follow the same pagination structure: page 1 should have rel="next", page 2 should have rel="prev" and rel="next"...etc.
Tag pages are not important from an SEO standpoint, only really for the user if they are interested in seeing similar content based on your tags. If you are getting duplicate content on your different tag pages because of low volume then just noindex your tag pages or remove them completely.
Hope these make sense
follow up with me if you have questions!
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I had a similar question a few days ago and was directed to this resource which I found very helpful : http://www.ayima.com/seo-knowledge/conquering-pagination-guide.html. In regards to your concern about the tag aggregation page, it depends on which CMS (if any) you are using and how it is implemented. If you purchase the Advanced SEO Training videos Moz offers they cover this in the fist disk. In summary it is good to have tag aggregation pages to be indexed since the combination of the content in context of the targeted tag can provide value that the content does not provide by itself. To increase the value of this some CMS's allow for providing unique descriptions to be shown in aggregation so that it does not cannibalize the value of the content. I hope this helps.
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