Duplicate description problem in Wordpress.
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Webmaster tools is flagging up duplicate descriptions for the page http://www.musicliveuk.com/live-acts. The page is one page in the wordpress page editor and the web designer set it up so that I can add new live acts from a seperate page editor on the left menu and that feeds into the page 'live-acts'. (it says under template 'live-acts-feed'. The problem is as I add more acts it creates new url's eg http://www.musicliveuk.com/live-acts/page/2 and http://www.musicliveuk.com/live-acts/page/3 etc...
I use the all in one SEO pack and webmaster tools tells me that page 2/3/4/ etc all have the same description. How can I overcome this? I can't write new descriptions for each page as the all in one SEO pack will only allow me to enter one for the page 'live-acts'.
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Thanks!!
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Hi Samuel, As you know that duplicate content in word press can easily be identified through various plugins. Here's is a way to How To Solve the Duplicate Content & Resolving Duplicate Content.
I hope that you will found the solution.
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I would highly recomment the Yoast SEO plugin, and would recommend the use of breadcrumbs within the template. In the header.php of your theme you I would suggest you add a rel="noindex, follow" on category pages. I wrote an article detailing how to set this up, and so far its working well for me: http://www.laceytechsolutions.co.uk/blog/wordpress-development/avoiding-duplicate-content-in-wordpress
On another note, I have used a plugin called GigPress, for an event website I put together and this works wonders, I would highly recomment this plugin. I hope some of this information is useful to you.
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Naghirniac is right, also I would consider changing to SEO by Yoast plugin (I have even used this plugin in conjunction with SEO Presser with great success) and write all your titles and descriptions.
The Yoast plugin has a great interface that allows you to see the Ttile, URL, and description exactly as it would look in Google search, excellent WP plugin....
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Hy Samuel,
In this case one good option is to use the metatag rel cannonical. Do you know this? You will need to input in the page, inside the section the follow:
where example.com/index.html is the page that you want google consider. With this google will no more consider duplicate content for your other pages.
To have more detailed info, check this post out: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/robot-access-indexation-restriction-techniques-avoiding-conflicts
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