Yoast duplicate my post on Google Serps because primary category

  • Resolved luismoyano

    (@luismoyano)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hi there,
    i have food vegetarian blog, and I usually put my recipes in several categories, because many of them are gluten free, as well as vegan and vegetarian. The last week I have marked one of those categories as the primary category on every post on my blog, as well as marked some of my principal posts as cornerstone content, before to move my blog to the premium version of Yoast SEO.

    Everything works well, but now when you search in google by whatever of the terms that my posts are very good ranked, you can found two results, one for the recipe with the structure: mydomain/post-name/, and another one as mydomain/recipes/post-name/. BTW, I’m not using the word category word before every category, and Recipes is my main category, and the rest of categories are inside this one.

    The canonical url is the same for both results in the SERPS: mydomain/post-name/. But actually, in the SERPs the google result with the category shows the correct description and the correct schema with the stars, etc… while the real canonical url now is showed very ugly with a bad description, and a bad look, no stars, no nothing….

    ?How to solve this? The post-sitemap.xml is ok as well, and there is no recipe with the primary category on it, I mean the structure of all the links is correct inside the sitemap. So, it’s so weird, and it was no happening before to use the primary category on every post.

    I hope you can help me on this.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Hi,

    If the canonical for both URLs point to: mydomain/post-name/, we would expect mydomain/recipes/post-name/ to fall off in Google as the canonical points elsewhere.

    We think what is happening is that Google just needs to recrawl your content and update the index.

    We suggest the following actions:

    1. Clear all your caching from your theme, plugin, server, CDN like CloudFlare or browser. If you are not sure how to clear caching from theme/plugin please speak to those authors. If you want to clear cache from the server, please speak to your host provider. To clear the cache from a browser use this guide:?https://yoast.com/help/how-to-clear-my-browsers-cache/.

    2. Delete your sitemap in Google. Doing so will not hurt the SEO of the site. This guide explains more (scroll to the bottom):?https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183669?hl=en.

    3. Submit the sitemap again. Be sure to submit only sitemap_index.xml and nothing else.?This guide explains more:?https://yoast.com/help/submit-sitemap-search-engines/.

    4. Monitor the results to see if the issues resolve.

    Thread Starter luismoyano

    (@luismoyano)

    Wooow, such a support OMG!
    Thank you so much for your fast answer and helpful tips.
    I will read those two articles and of course, I will reload the sitemap again.
    I was thinking exactly that all my problem could be something around your suggestion, which is that google should re crawl all my new structure of categories. I will let you know what happens!

    Again, thank you so much for your amazing help!!

    Luis

    Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hi Luis,

    Thank you for your response. You also mentioned that you upgraded to the premium version of the Yoast SEO for WordPress plugin? Or you were still planning on upgrading? If you already have an active subscription for the premium plugin, you can contact us directly for premium support — https://yoast.com/help/support/#premium

    Thread Starter luismoyano

    (@luismoyano)

    No, I have not stilk moved to Premium. But yes, I’m doing the right thing in my blog in advance, in order to be able to move to premium and to profit every aspect of the premium package asap. In a couple of weeks I’ll be ready to think in the next step.

    Thank you!

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by luismoyano.

    Awesome @luismoyano, if you do need assistance with the premium version then, feel free to contact us any time using our premium support channels.

    We’ll go ahead and set this topic to be resolved. Thank you again.

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