Duplicate content issue with pages that have navigation
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We have a large consumer website with several sections that have navigation of several pages. How would I prevent the pages from getting duplicate content errors and how best would I handle SEO for these?
For example we have about 500 events with 20 events showing on each page. What is the best way to prevent all the subsequent navigation pages from getting a duplicate content and duplicate title error?
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Hi,
To add to all the good advice given so far, you can also utilise URL Parameters in WMT Search Console to specify that a cert URL pattern is canonical content.
Kind Regards
Jimmy
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Hello,
I assume that you are using get method where page navigation values passed through query string like - abc.com/event?page=2, page=3,. If this is your case then you should configure 'URL parameters' on both Google and Bing search engines. URL parameters are kind of pre notice for search engines crawlers to know that page content is duplicate on pages - event?page=2, page=3. After configuring URL parameters, Search engines will only index 'abc.com/event' page and exclude indextion of page=2, page=3 and so on
Few other important tags [rel="prev", rel="next"] you should add to notify crawlers that content is in pagination.
eg. on page - abc.com/event
<link rel="next" href="https://www.abc.com/even?page=2" />
on page - abc.com/even?page=2 <link rel="prev" href="https://www.abc.com/even" /> <link rel="next" href="https://www.abc.com/even?page=3" />
You may check pagination given on Arvixe Review
Thanks!
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Hello.
I would include a different description and title for every section to avoid them as being duplicates if you only list the events.
Then, for the navigation on each section, you have three good options:
- Remove every page except the first from search engines using robots.txt
- Create a "Show all" page, linked from menus, and put canonicals on each pagination pointing to the full listing.
- Implement the link rel="next" and rel="prev" meta tags to help Google interpreting it is a pagination.
Any of those ways would help quite a lot to Google so that it can understand what is happening on your site.
I hope it helps you.
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