Duplicate title tags and meta descriptions

[Peter <Nabble>]

It works perfectly for me. Which browser is this? Safari? Tell me and I will try on the same browser you are using.

[Harvey]

Firefox.

Here's one from Safari:

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Harvey44 wrote

These two examples took a minute to create/find.  It certainly is not consistent.  (I'd say the proper tag loads 50% of the time).  

If this happens again, please wait up to one minute just to make sure the issue is still there. After that, if the title is still wrong, please open Firefox's error console and let me know if you see javascript errors on the page (you may clear the error console before running this test).

Harvey44 wrote

But as noted above, Google is finding the error.

Google doesn't look at that title. Google looks directly into the HTML of the page, which is correct in your case. You can confirm this by looking at recent threads with more than one page. For example, the Line Prophet 90's, Skied Twice thread has just reached the second page. Please check if google is saying that that page has duplicated titles (it probably won't because we changed your titles two weeks ago and new threads will be crawled correctly. Old threads should be updated as soon as they are crawled).

[Harvey]

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

Google doesn't look at that title. Google looks directly into the HTML of the page, which is correct in your case. You can confirm this by looking at recent threads with more than one page. For example, the Line Prophet 90's, Skied Twice thread has just reached the second page. Please check if google is saying that that page has duplicated titles (it probably won't because we changed your titles two weeks ago and new threads will be crawled correctly. Old threads should be updated as soon as they are crawled).

Hugo I assumed that that was true until I saw these new errors - that came right out of webmaster tools?  I assume that means that google is seeing the errors?

I will look for Javascript errors.

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Does google say anything about the Line Prophet 90's, Skied Twice thread? That's the thread you should keep an eye on.

[Harvey]

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

Does google say anything about the Line Prophet 90's, Skied Twice thread? That's the thread you should keep an eye on.

Webmaster tools only reports on a limited number of errors. I think it is around 60. But if a thread has 10 pages and all have duplicate meta descripitons that  can give you 10 errors.

So I may never see the Line Prophet thread in the list of errors.

It looks like our title solution is working.  Slowly the number or duplicate titles is dropping (down to 154 now). While the title only load sporadically in the top bar of the embed page, I understand how this theoretically shouldn't matter.

I'm wondering about the descriptions - duplicates are rising fast (up to about 450 now). How did we decide to handle those? Did we decide?

Options were to "noindex" all pages except page one

Pull the meta description from the first post on each page

Any other options?

Are the first two options even possible?

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Harvey, is this still an issue? How is the list of errors now?

[Harvey]

It's quite large. I looked last night and we have over 1000.

There is something structural going on.

Here are four entries from the same thread:

/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i10.html

/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i190.html

/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i30.html

/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i60.html

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[Hugo <Nabble>]

Harvey44 wrote

Here are four entries from the same thread:

http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i10.html
http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i190.html
http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i30.html
http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i60.html

They have different titles. What is the error in this case? Duplicate meta tags?

[Harvey]

My bad. Title tags look good. Errors are down to about 15.

It's the meta descriptions that have high numbers.

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Harvey44 wrote

Here are four entries from the same thread:

http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i10.html
http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i190.html
http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i30.html
http://forum.nyskiblog.com/Gore-Conditions-td1972047i60.html

They have different titles. What is the error in this case? Duplicate meta tags?

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[Hugo <Nabble>]

Harvey44 wrote

It's the meta descriptions that have high numbers.

I believe search engines are ignoring the page number at the end of the meta descriptions. So I made a change that will print the page number in the beginning of the description (e.g., "[Page 2] Title of the thread... blah blah"). This will be available after the next release. Please check the report again in a few weeks and let me know how it reacted to this change.

[Harvey]

Hugo - I never saw the numbers added to the subsequent pages.

I still wonder about no indexing the additional pages. But I think we should try your idea first.

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It's the meta descriptions that have high numbers.

I believe search engines are ignoring the page number at the end of the meta descriptions. So I made a change that will print the page number in the beginning of the description (e.g., "[Page 2] Title of the thread... blah blah"). This will be available after the next release. Please check the report again in a few weeks and let me know how it reacted to this change.

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[Harvey]

More duplicates:

[Page 8] NY Ski Forums - skiing, sports, weather and ski conditions, trip reports, from Whiteface, G
/Long-Term-Prognostication-Winter-2011-12-td3532560i70.html
/ORDA-May-Gain-Belleayre-td3010320i70.html
/Why-do-people-Telemark-td2501217i70.html

[Harvey]

This is very odd.  

This thread is only a few days old and is showing duplicate title tags:



I was pretty sure we had this fixed.

[Pedro]

I'm trying to figure it out.

[Harvey]

What is the diffference between td and tp?

[GregChapman]

< td > "table data" is the tag for a table cell. I am unaware of a  <tp> tag. Have I got the wrong context?

[Harvey]

Harvey44 wrote

I was referring to these duplicates.

The top 2 are identical except for those letters.

[GregChapman]

Ah! I'll keep quiet then. I know nothing of the special coding on your forum.

[Harvey]

I wasn't trying to be negative. I was just wondered what the difference was between those two links.