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Author Topic: Ktools SEO Question - Are you seeing Duplicate meta descriptions?  (Read 4189 times)

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« on: September 23, 2012, 13:31 »
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I've been perusing my Google webmaster tools today to see if I could figure out a bit of a traffic drop I'm seeing on my ktools site and I see it's come up with over a 100 Duplicate meta descriptions.

It appears that when I've adjusted a title for an image another page is generated with the updated SEF url but the old one is still seen by google and flagged as being duplicate...forgive me I am an artist first and SEO is new to me...is this something anyone else is seeing with your ktools sites, or is there an obvious fix I am missing?



« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2012, 10:49 »
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It is most likely because you have SEO enabled and you changed the title afterwards.

I will try to explain what is going on.
SEO is basically a "fake" URL rewrite to what the real single url really is.

So lets take this photo for example:
http://www.kmods.net/ps4/photo/NDg4YzQyNGNkN2Y5/geotest.html
The title on it is "geotest" and the store uses that in the URL for better search engine placement.
The random character/number is the encoded ID of that media.
So lets say a month later I decide to change the title to something else like "mytest". The store will now rewrite the URL to:
http://www.kmods.net/ps4/photo/NDg4YzQyNGNkN2Y5/mytest.html
The media ID is the same, but the ending changed, so technically it is a new url and the old url still works as well since SEO is turned on and both are being wrote to point to the actual page of:
http://www.kmods.net/ps4/media.details.php?mediaID=NDg4YzQyNGNkN2Y5

Unfortunately there is no way around this when you are playing tricks with search engines and rewritting your URL's, you will just have to be certain you have the title you want on each media before importing them into the store.


« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2012, 11:18 »
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This is why many systems don't let you update a SEO friendly title once the entry/page is created. You often need to delete the post or page and recreate it if you want a different title.

« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2012, 12:12 »
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Thanks for the explanation Jeff, I see what is happening there.  I'm doing some research to see if it's worth creating 301's or putting the duplicate entries in my robots.txt file as someone on the ktools forum suggested.  Good to know when editing titles in the future!

« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2012, 14:34 »
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ppdd might of gave the best answer, just delete and re-upload with changed title.
This will force the store to give it a new ID and therefore the link will be new and not a duplicate.



 

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