Remove Duplicate Titles and Descriptions in Blogger to Increase Your Blog Traffic

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When you add Meta Title and Descriptions in your blog (Blogspot) and regularly posting your articles, search engines like Google and Yahoo may consider your blog as filled with duplicate content and titles. They are will read Meta Title and Descriptions not only in the main page of your blog but read the same Meta Title and Descriptions in whole of your page. That's the reason search engines consider duplicate meta descriptions/title tags as "bad", and can actually penalize you for that. Search engines like Google and Yahoo might decide your site is not search-engine-friendly and it is not Good for the SEO.

If you already add your blog to Google Sitemap, you will found there is Duplicate title and description Issue. How to Remove Duplicate Titles and Description in Blogger? Follow the steps below:

Remove Duplicate Titles
1. Login to your blogger account then choose Layout -> Edit HTML), click on "Expand Widget Templates".

2. Then find (CTRL+F) this code:
<a expr:href='data:comment.url' title='comment permalink'>
<data:comment.timestamp/>
</a>


3. Replace the entire code with this new code:
<b:if cond='data:post.commentPagingRequired'>
<a expr:href='data:comment.url' title='comment permalink'> <data.comment.timestamp/> </a>
<b:else/>
<a expr:href='data:blog.url + &quot;#&quot; + data:comment.anchorName' title='comment permalink'> <data:comment.timestamp/> </a>
</b:if>


Remove Duplicate Descriptions

1. Login to your blogger account (Blogger-> dashboard -> Layout -> Edit HTML)

2. find (CTRL+F) the code for meta description tag, something like this:
<meta content="GENERAL_DESCRIPTION_HERE" name="description"/>

3. Now put that tag in an "if" condition, so that it will be displayed ONLY in the HOME PAGE:
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content="GENERAL_DESCRIPTION_HERE" name="description"/>
</b:if>

4. Now save the template.


To see the changes, you may wait about 2 or 3 weeks and you can check your Google's Webmaster Tools and see the errors at Diagnostics -> Content Analysis, the error should be remove from Google.

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