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Hello. I am  currently running MyBB 1.8.15

Since long time I am facing "Duplicate title tags" in Webmaster Tools  like for many posts...

Examples:

/forum/thread-15589-lastpost.html
/forum/thread-15589.html

/forum/thread-15145-post-27433.html
/forum/thread-15145-post-28461.html

/forum/thread-103-post-120.html
/forum/thread-103.html

/forum/showthread.php?mode=linear&tid=14178&pid=26017
/forum/thread-14178-lastpost.html

/forum/thread-6592-lastpost.html
/forum/thread-6592-page-2.html
/forum/thread-6592-page-3.html
/forum/thread-6592-page-4.html
/forum/thread-6592-page-5.html
/forum/thread-6592-page-6.html
/forum/thread-6592-page-7.html
/forum/thread-6592-page-8.html
/forum/thread-6592-page-9.html
/forum/thread-6592.html

/forum/thread-12550-post-23046.html
/forum/thread-12550.html
/forum/thread-12611.html

/forum/archive/index.php?thread-8391-2.html
/forum/archive/index.php?thread-8391.html

/forum/printthread.php?tid=15865
/forum/printthread.php?tid=15866

How to fix please ? I have like 3,957 ...

Install google seo plugin and enable the canonical meta tag. With time the duplicate tags will disappear.

You mean this ?

Google SEO by frostschutz - https://community.mybb.com/mods.php?action=view&pid=789

Can you specify what exactly to enable ? "enable the canonical meta tag" is "specify canonical pages" (didn't installed it yet) or other setting there?

One question about the plugin: the plugin will change my links type (is this the canonical's) ?

/forum/thread-12611.html
to
/this-is-a-title.html

? Because I link to old type links all over the other places and I don't want to have broken links :|

Which one is it, safe to use in my case ?

- update. I enabled "Enable Google SEO Meta". It's ok and enough in my case?



Thank you for help.

(2018-10-05, 04:46 AM)mybbr Wrote: [ -> ]You mean this ?

Google SEO by frostschutz  - https://community.mybb.com/mods.php?action=view&pid=789

Can you specify what exactly to enable ? "enable the canonical meta tag" is "specify canonical pages"  (didn't installed it yet) or other setting there?

One question about the plugin: the plugin will change my links type (is this the canonical's) ?

/forum/thread-12611.html
to
/this-is-a-title.html

? Because I link to old type links all over the other places and I don't want to have broken links :|

Which one is it, safe to use in my case ?

- update. I enabled "Enable Google SEO Meta". It's ok and enough in my case?



Thank you for help.

@Ashley1 is talking about this in the screenshot below...

Since mybb is so easy to use, I forget there is also configuration option in admin.

I found your setting. once I "Enable Google SEO Meta" shows enabled in here too "Canonical Page".




Guess I have to wait now see if it works.

I have custom theme, hope is working on custom themes.

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Update. I enabled and disable with and without "Canonical Page" option to see if works and:

Taking this example

/forum/thread-103-post-120.html
/forum/thread-103.html

I see for both

<meta name="description" content="textfrompost" />
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.domainhere.net/forum/thread-103.html" />
</head>

so adds

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.domainhere.net/forum/thread-103.html" />

Seems to work

I hope it fixes my problem. Thank you very much.

(If it's more to check in settings, please tell me further, so I can do it)

Google SEO also populates a page variable (only set for page > 1) for you to use in the <title> of the 'showthread' template.

see https://github.com/frostschutz/MyBB-goog...ead-titles

without it, the duplicate title for thread pages will persist

you also get duplicate titles if there are two threads with the same title. but that much is to be expected, in a forum of size there will always be a few dupes. It doesn't matter as long it is the exception, not the rule