My theme is producing duplicate content

[Nandita]

My blog url is SEOHour.com

I'm using Copyblogger (free theme) on Genesis Framework. I'm not using any SEO Plugin on my blog since the beginning.

I'm facing "Duplicate Content" issue. Google has been indexing multiple pages (pagination 1,2,3,4...) of my blog. I've done the best possible SEO Setting under Genesis. But still facing the problem.

My setting is like Genesis ---> SEO Setting

Apply nonarchive to the home page - Check

Apply noindex to Category archive - Check
Apply noindex to Tag archive - Check
Apply noindex to Author archive - Check
Apply noindex to Date archive - Check
Apply noindex to Search archive - Check

Apply nonarchive to Entire Site - Check

Apply nonarchive to Category Archives - Check
Apply nonarchive to Tag Archives - Check
Apply nonarchive to Author Archives - Check
Apply nonarchive to Date Archives - Check
Apply nonarchive to Search Archives - Check

Canonical Paginated Archives - Check

So Google is not indexing my Categories, Tags etc. but still indexed 10 duplicate pages from the Pagination. I've included an example URL below for reference.

How to prevent and getrid of these already indexed duplicate pages?

https://www.google.com/search?num=20&biw=1360&bih=624&q=site%3Aseohour.com&oq=site%3Aseohour.com&gs_l=serp.12...26612.27456.0.29226.11.5.0.0.0.3.127.529.1j4.5.0....0...1c.1.19.serp.7nUiQQLEJ_g

[Brad Dalton]

You could use GWMT to remove url's from the index manually. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/59819?hl=en

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[Nandita]

Hi,

But Google WMT doesn't remove live URL. The page has to return 404 or 401 status code. Moreover the removed URLs last for 90 days and again appear in Google search after that.

[Brad Dalton]

You can add them to your robots.txt immediately.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[Nandita]

Can you please tell me - Which file to add in robots.txt to avoid pagination issue (duplication)?

[robindean]

Yes, I'm going to reopen this thread.

I'm having the same problem on streamline-pro. Basically, I want to "noindex, follow" ALL PAGINATION.

How do I do this?

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Shabadoo!

[robindean]

After a bit of Googling, I found a solution.

For my theme and it's customizations in particular, I ended up simply adding this to my functions.php file:

function noindex_pagination() {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow,noarchive,noodp,noydir"/>';
}
if (substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 0, 6) == '/page/') {
remove_action('genesis_meta','genesis_robots_meta');
add_action('genesis_meta','noindex_pagination');
}

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Shabadoo!

[ToniLaird]

I've just posted a support ticket as I am also getting getting 'duplicate title tags' /, /page/2/, /page/3/, /page/4/
However, these pages all revert back to the static home page!

Nandita, did Robin's fix work for you as I may well try it?

[robindean]

I'd be willing to bet that the reason they all refer back to the home page is that they're setup for canonical use. That basically tells Google that they shouldn't be linked to but that they should redirect to the first in the series ... which DOESN'T solve the problem of them appearing in the search engines. Studiopress, give us the option!

My solution works for my own theme and I hope it will for everyone else.

Best.

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Shabadoo!

[Nandita]

Hi,

I don't know; by adding Robin's code in the functions.php file my theme crashed. I'm using EPIK theme on my blog.

Thank you.

[ToniLaird]

I've made a few changes but as Google is not 'real time' I'll have to wait around 5 days to see if it works!

[Nandita]

Hi Toni,

If it will work; please do share your tricks here.

Hope for the best. And wish you all the luck 🙂

[robindean]

My own site is on the Genesis framework. Is yours, Nandita? Maybe that's why it doesn't work.

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Shabadoo!

[Nandita]

Hi Robin,

We all are here only because we all have Genesis framework. Very few people here who use a SP Child Theme without a Genesis Framework.

So, keeping this in mind we should answer others' questions.

Thanks for clarifying the fact 🙂

[ToniLaird]

What I have just discovered is that in the Google Webmaster I had not set the 'preffered domain' as with my other sites!

On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the site you want.
Click the gear icon , and then click Site Settings.
In the Preferred domain section, select the option you want

You need to chooses whether to use www or not. This could be the cause. I'll revert back in a few days

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