Pagination and Duplicate Title, H1 and Description Issue

Hi @nevrsmer,

If those pages with the issues are paginated pages (/page/2/, etc.) then adding the %%page%% snippet variable should solve the problem.

You can find more information about the issue in this article: https://yoast.com/help/how-do-i-fix-duplicate-meta-tags//

Hello Priscilla,

Thank you for responding. I did add %%page%% at the end of the SEO Title and Meta Description directly to the pages that have pagination.

For some reason, it did not resolve the issue with duplicate H1s on pages with pagination.

I did find on the internet that it Search Appearance –> Taxonomies –> Categories that in the SEO Title field, %%page%% (the purplish ovaal with “Page” in it) was present. In this fiel, it has: Term title, Archive, Page, Separater, Site Title.

Question: Is there a setting in Yoast that I can modify to resolve the H1 duplicate issue? If so, could you please explain how?

This also did not resolve a title error with a page that has duplication. Frankly, I don’t know if it’s due to the same thing. For some reason, there are 2 URL for the same page. One ends with a “/”, and the other doesn’t (e.g., mydomain.com/blog and mydomain.com/blog/).

Is there a setting in Yoast that can resolve this issue?

Thank you very much for your time and have a good day.

Cheers!

Is there a setting in Yoast that I can modify to resolve the H1 duplicate issue? If so, could you please explain how?
We are afraid to say that there’s no option in Yoast SEO Plugin that can remove the duplicate H1 automatically for you.

That said, can you please confirm in where exactly are you seeing the duplicate H1 issue on your site? Are you seeing it in the edit page Yoast SEO content analysis?

If no, please share the relevant screenshot and the relevant page URL where the issue remains occurring for you so that we can understand it better.

Hello Md Mazedul Islam Khan,

Thank you for your reply and for wanting to help resolve this issue.

No, the issue is not reporting on Yoast SEO content analysis. I ran a scan using sitecheckerpro(dotcom). You can see the results of the scan at: https://sitechecker.pro/app/main/project/893437/audit/summary

There are 4 main issues in the scan’s results: 1. H1 duplicates (7 pages), 2. Description duplicates (2 pages), 3. Title duplicates (same 2 pages), 4. Canonical ≠ URL (connected to the errors with 2 pages).

H1 Duplicates
Regarding the H1 duplicate error, all 7 pages are categories. From what I read, having %%page%% in the SEO Title Field in Search Appearance –> Taxonomies –> Categories should prevent H1 duplicates with pages with pagination. That does not seem to be the case.

Description Duplicates, Title Duplicates, Canonical ≠ URL
I think that whatever is causing description duplicates, title duplicates, and canonical ≠ URL errors for the same 2 pages are related, as they have to do with the same category. The URLs in question are: mydomain.com/gallery and mydomain.com/gallery/. The URL for the Canonical ≠ URL error is: mydomain.com/gallery.

In the Yoast Edit Snippet section for this category, I inserted %%page%% at the end for the SEO Title and Meta Description, and in Yoast Edit Snippet –> Avanced –> Cannonical URL, I input: https://mydomain.com.com/gallery/.

This did not resolve the duplicate errors or the Canonical ≠ URL error.

Another issue I noticed with pagination is that not all of the pages appear in Google Chrome –> View Page Source. For example, there’s a blog that has 3 pages. When viewing this page in Google Chrome –> View Page Source, it only shows that there are 2 pages (please see below).

<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://mydomain.com/client-resources/&#8221; />
<link rel=”next” href=”https://mydomain.com/client-resources/page/2/&#8221; />

In Yoast Edit Snippet section for this page (it is a category), %%page%% is inserted at the end for the SEO Title and Meta Description.

Would you happened to know what is causing these issues and how to resolve them? Do you require any additional information to help you determine the cause of these issues? Sorry, I don’t see how to include an image in the message. Also, all instances of our domain has been replaced with mydomain.com.

Again, thank you for your time and have a good day.

Cheers!

Hi @nevrsmer,

Thank you for getting back to us.

H1 Duplicates
According to the report, the error refers to the same text appearing the H1 tags for multiple pages. The solution you’re looking to use (SEO > Search Appearance > Taxonomies) is not exactly correct.

You can add %%page%% to any SEO title (used in search results and browser tabs), but this has no effect on the H1 tag (visible in pages and controlled by your theme). This approach could work if you add custom code, for example, using the ‘the_title’ filter to replace the default page title with the Yoast SEO title. You may need to check the developer docs for more information: https://developer.yoast.com/

Description Duplicates, Title Duplicates, Canonical ≠ URL
It looks like you may be able to solve the duplicate content problem by making sure that /gallery always points to /gallery/ instead. Updating your links, creating a redirect, or checking for a trailing slash in your permalink settings are also ways to do this.

The other problems for the gallery page seem to be related to it being an infinite scrolling page displaying images, not a standard category archive page with pagination.

Please note that the canonical URL should never include %%page%%, so we recommend leaving this field blank so that the default is always the main gallery page. This is the correct behavior for this special type of page, so you can disregard any canonical URL warnings in the report.

As an alternative, there may be a special template or code for this page related to your theme or a plugin that you can edit to solve these issues.

We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.