duplicate title and description issue

Started by mariya, 07-13-2018, 06:43:37

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mariyaTopic starter

While checking on google webmaster tool, I found the duplicate title and description issue in one of my web pages. The error sample show like this.


http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php
http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php/sitemap.xml

Normally this type of url will not be indexed by google (2nd url)

Anybody please help me how to fix this.


John - Smith

Can you please share the Screenshot?


Quote from: mariya on 07-13-2018, 06:43:37
While checking on google webmaster tool, I found the duplicate title and description issue in one of my web pages. The error sample show like this.


http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php
http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php/sitemap.xml

Normally this type of url will not be indexed by google (2nd url)

Anybody please help me how to fix this.

Post Merge: 07-16-2018, 00:04:41


Can you please share the Screenshot?


Quote from: mariya on 07-13-2018, 06:43:37
While checking on google webmaster tool, I found the duplicate title and description issue in one of my web pages. The error sample show like this.


http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php
http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php/sitemap.xml

Normally this type of url will not be indexed by google (2nd url)

Anybody please help me how to fix this.


mariyaTopic starter

#2
Check the screenshot. If I need to share the exact URL please tell me.

bachynskijosh

#3
To fix the duplicate title and description issue in your web page, you can follow these steps:

1. Determine which URL is the correct one that you want to be indexed by Google. In this case, it seems like "http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php" is the correct URL.

2. Redirect or canonicalize the incorrect URL to the correct one. You can do this by implementing a 301 redirect from "http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php/sitemap.xml" to "http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php" or by adding a canonical tag in the HTML code of the incorrect URL, specifying the correct URL as the canonical version.

3. Update your sitemap.xml file to exclude the incorrect URL. This will ensure that Google does not crawl or index the incorrect URL.

4. Once you have made the necessary changes, submit your updated sitemap.xml to Google via Google Search Console. This will prompt Google to re-crawl and re-index your website, taking into account the changes you made to resolve the duplicate title and description issue.

Additionally, it's always a good practice to regularly monitor your website for any duplicate content issues and address them promptly to ensure optimal SEO performance.
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John - Smith

if "http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php" is your main url, keep its title description as it is and change the title and desc of the other url.
it will solve your issue.


Quote from: mariya on 07-13-2018, 06:43:37
While checking on google webmaster tool, I found the duplicate title and description issue in one of my web pages. The error sample show like this.
http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php
http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php/sitemap.xml
Normally this type of url will not be indexed by google (2nd url)
Anybody please help me how to fix this.

Post Merge: 07-16-2018, 23:22:19


if "http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php" is your main url, keep its title description as it is and change the title and desc of the other url.
it will solve your issue.


Quote from: mariya on 07-13-2018, 06:43:37
While checking on google webmaster tool, I found the duplicate title and description issue in one of my web pages. The error sample show like this.
http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php
http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php/sitemap.xml
Normally this type of url will not be indexed by google (2nd url)
Anybody please help me how to fix this.


nancyisabell

Quote from: mariya on 07-13-2018, 06:43:37
While checking on google webmaster tool, I found the duplicate title and description issue in one of my web pages. The error sample show like this.


http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php
http://www.abcd.com/xyz.php/sitemap.xml

Normally this type of url will not be indexed by google (2nd url)

Anybody please help me how to fix this.

Hi Mariya,

I was checked your screen shot and i also check your website.

Please remove http://www.iberissoftware.com/sales-tracker.php/sitemap.xml
this links from your server. May be its save in your server By mistake.

Sitemap file was perfect which I was check

http://www.iberissoftware.com/sitemap.xml

But In route folder may be wrong check your server links.
Remove that link from there.   

richardmsmith

To all the blogger users who uses meta description tags in their templates make sure not to use meta tags without the condition tags , because using it without condition tags search engine robots read your all content with duplicate description and for this reason google webmaster tool shows duplicate meta description warnings in HTML improvement tab.