Meta description and Tag title duplicated growing

Hi all;
meta description and tag title duplicates are growing every day for my website (intotheapple.com).

What might be the problem?

Thank you!

Hi,

The issue seems to be related to a missing part in the HTML 'title' tag (page number for those threads and forums that contain more than one page of posts and treads, respectively). Please make sure that the page number has been added to HTML 'title' tag in your SHOWTHREAD template.

You likely have this in your template:

<title>{vb:raw thread.prefix_plain_html} {vb:raw thread.title}</title>


If so, then you must change that code to:

<title>{vb:raw thread.prefix_plain_html} {vb:raw thread.title}<vb:if condition="$pagenumber > '1'"> - {vb:rawphrase page_x, {vb:raw pagenumber}}</vb:if></title>


Regarding the problem with duplicated meta descriptions, have you been using 'stop words' functionality for some time now?, do your users change thread titles often?. These could be both causes of the problem.

What I have in the SHOWTHREAD template is this:

Code:

<title>{vb:raw thread.prefix_plain_html} {vb:raw thread.title}<vb:if condition="$pagenumber > '1'"> - {vb:rawphrase page_x, {vb:raw pagenumber}}</vb:if></title>

What's the Stop Words functionality?

About thread titles: we do change them quite often, especially when a question was solved we usually add [SOLVED] at the beginning of the title…

You should really consider using prefixes (and not using them in rewrites) for thread marking so the url doesn't change.

stop words removes stuff like 'a' 'and' and other common words from the url. As you can see on this thread, 'and' was removed because it is a stop word.

Thank you!

How can I use prefixes? Will that change the existing urls or just the new ones?

How can I activate stop words? Is it included in vbseo?

Thanks again!

Hi Lorenzo,

Originally Posted by lovecraft22

How can I use prefixes? Will that change the existing urls or just the new ones?

There's a function called "Thread Prefixes" inside Admin CP at the left pane navigation, however this is more a vBulletin-related question than a vBSEO one. Please contact vBulletin support for better assistance on this matter

Originally Posted by lovecraft22

How can I activate stop words? Is it included in vbseo?

It is enabled by default. You can find a setting with some pre-defined samples within vBSEO CP, which will allow you to set your custom stop words:

vBSEO CP -> SEO Functions -> Stopword Filtering

Thank you Andres;
I'll ask the vBulletin support for what concerns the Thread Prefixes.

About stop words: what happen if i add another word to my list? Will old URLs change or just the new ones will?

It is 'real time' so yes, it will effect all urls.

That means I will lose mi indicization, right?

yes, but they will auto 301

So, if someone would find what was named "meta and tag duplicated" on google which is now named "meta tag duplicated", click on the first one would redirect on the second, is that right?

No problem would be caused on search engine positioning?

as you can see, if we put 'and' back in the url, we still end up at this thread.

Code:

http://www.vbseo.com/f2/meta-description-tag-and-title-duplicated-growing-49859

Great, thank you!

From the days I started this topic those values have increased by 500 with 15 new topics opened only.

Are you sure the problem may be that one?

Some of the duplicated tags: