Utilities such as serpstat.com see the URLs example.com/topic/42/mytitle/1 and example.com/topic/42/mytitle/3 as two different pages with duplicate title meta tags. Is it possible to fix this without blocking all posts in the thread except the first one in robots.txt? How to get rid of this “ghosting duplication” Asking you guys here, because Google says title duplication is harmful for SEO.
Twissell cna you check the rel=canonical for both of those pages?
They should both return the same value.
julian yep! rel=“canonical” tag has one and only one value.
Like https://example.com/topic/42/slug_of_title_here where 42 is just a topic id
Twissell in that case there should be no adverse effect on SEO.
Crawlers will see the
rel=canonicaltag and automatically deduplicate the 2+ entries into one
