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Identical Meta description

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    Identical Meta description

    When using Google Webmastertools analysis I get a lot of socalled "warnings" on "Identical Metadescriptions" in my forum - is this something to worry about, or...

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    its merely a warning, not an error.

    Most commonly, this happens from mods/addons that aren't coded well (ie, itrader.php?member=XXX returns the same meta for EVERY MEMBER).

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    Hello ,

    You may want to upgrade to vBSEO 3.3.0 RC1 as there is a new option that prevents identical meta description issue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mert Gökçeimam View Post
    Hello ,

    You may want to upgrade to vBSEO 3.3.0 RC1 as there is a new option that prevents identical meta description issue.
    I already did that. Could You point me in a more direct way to the specific parameter You are thinking of?
    In the Google-report it refers to some of these URL's:

    vbforum/science-fiction/3301-the-host-stephenie-meyer.html#post42281
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    vbforum/science-fiction/3301-the-host-stephenie-meyer.html

    One of these is obvisously referring to thread and the other to a specific post in the same thread.
    Last edited by cykelmyggen; 02-24-2009 at 03:40 PM. Reason: spelling

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    #post42281 is an anchor and it is needed to specify the actual post within the url and this doesnt create duplicate content.
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    as mert points out, bookmarks are not duplicate pages.

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