Webmaster is giving errors of Duplicate Meta Descriptions and Duplicate Title Tags
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Webmaster is giving errors of Duplicate Meta Descriptions and Duplicate Title Tags after I changes the permalinks structure in wordpress.
It there a quick fix for this and how damaging is the above for seo.
Thanks T
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Hi i hope its ok, i sent the links/urls to your email
Regards T
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If you changed 2500 URLs on a 10 year old site and didn't create redirects then you have a much bigger problem on your hands than Moz alerts.
- Did you create 301 redirects after changing these URLs?
- Please send an example of a new URL and the old version of that URL.
- Is your traffic holding steady in Google Analytics since you made these changes?
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Thanks Kane, Webmaster says that I have 2500 Duplicate title tags and 2300 Duplicate meta descriptions
Is there a quick way to fix these
I am using redirection plugin which redirects the both urls to the same page. Google last crawled the page on the 25th Feb..
The site is 10 years old
Thanks
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You'll need to create redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs. Once Moz gets a chance to recrawl this within a month the errors should go away.
If you changed the permalink structure on an established site (not a new site), then it's even more important to create these redirects, both for users and for web crawlers trying to give you credit for your incoming links.
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Hi Eric,
I changed the permalinks months ago...
what should I be looking for in Screaming Frog..
Just ran Screaming Frog and it does not show any major duplicate issues..
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If you have changed the permalinks structure, then I would use a crawler to crawl your own site and look at the meta data. The "duplicate title tags", etc. errors take some time to show up in Google Search Console, at least a day or two. So you may want to re-check it in a few days if you just made corrections on your site.
You can use a campaign here in Moz to check the data, or you can use a crawler like the Screaming Frog SEO spider to check all the data yourself (which is much quicker).
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