SEO Expert Blog

Google Webmaster Tools includes a tool called content analysis that you find in the Diagnostics section. The content analysis tool reported a suboptimal number of duplicate title tags and meta descriptions for some Drupal sites that I monitor with these tools.

Getting rid of duplicate title tags and meta descriptions caused by the pager is actually quite simple. When using the Meta Tags module with the setting ALL=INDEX,FOLLOW for Default robots meta tag: you can adjust the robots Meta tag in your theme, so that pages that contain the page parameter in the URL are not indexed using the following code snippet in the head section of your page.tpl.php template file.

In this video tutorial Michael Gray from Graywolf's SEO Blog explains how to avoid duplicate content in your wordpress blog. One technique is to deny certain sections from being spidered by search engines, for example the archive section. The information given can of course also be applied to other content management systems, such as Drupal or Joomla.

In this video Google guru Matt Cutts answers questions on the relationship of Google Analytics and SERPs, how Google detects duplicate content and how to mark your porn pages to be omitted in SafeSearch. Enjoy!