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I was going through my Google Search Console correcting problems that Google had uncovered when I came across this. Google is reporting that I have pages with multiple <title></title> entries. They all seem to be in the Forum.
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/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1100518
/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1102060
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/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=448899&page=all
/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=449169&page=2
/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=449186&page=1
/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=449197
/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=449828&page=2
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/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1101107
/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=630311
/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=630335
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/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1079785
/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1080786
(This is just a sample. There's quite a few more.)

Looks like a loop type problem to me, but what do I know?


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If you're having indexing issues you should first enable search engine friendly URLs with the fake html extension in the Control Panel (CP -> Master Settings -> Primary SEttings -> General Tab -> Advanced Options -> "Enable Spider-Friendly URLs" and "Enable HTML Extention")

Without Spider Friendly URLs Google sees all urls as "/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php" with qualifiers; at times it will drop the qualifiers on some URLs, resulting in some crawling errors.

Now would probably also be a good time to install this modification so that you're already setup for the v7.6.0 URL scheme; I even have support built for the v7.6.0 in the UBB.Sitemaps modification.


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Some additional information that you can read through, on top of what Gizmo mentioned above:

Have a quick read through this page -
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6080548?rd=1

Then visit here -
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-url-parameters?hl=en&siteUrl=https://www.YOURWEBSITE.com/

Add these items to your list -
.html
Cat
PHPSESSID
sb
view
words
Limit

Set their qualifiers on GWT to "Let Googlebot decide"

These settings have been helpful for me since coming from 5.x, 6.x and 7.x versions before the SF-URLs were available.

BUT ULTIMATELY, if you want the spiders to get through your pages with less issues, turn on "Spider Friendly URLs" as Gizmo pointed out.


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Originally Posted by Gizmo
If you're having indexing issues you should first enable search engine friendly URLs with the fake html extension in the Control Panel (CP -> Master Settings -> Primary SEttings -> General Tab -> Advanced Options -> "Enable Spider-Friendly URLs" and "Enable HTML Extention")

Without Spider Friendly URLs Google sees all urls as "/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php" with qualifiers; at times it will drop the qualifiers on some URLs, resulting in some crawling errors.

Now would probably also be a good time to install this modification so that you're already setup for the v7.6.0 URL scheme; I even have support built for the v7.6.0 in the UBB.Sitemaps modification.
Gizmo, thanks, man. I didn't even know UBBThreads had Spider Friendly URLs available. I implemented it immediately. I'll take a look at the mod too.


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Originally Posted by id242
Some additional information that you can read through, on top of what Gizmo mentioned above:

Have a quick read through this page -
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6080548?rd=1

Then visit here -
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/crawl-url-parameters?hl=en&siteUrl=https://www.YOURWEBSITE.com/

Add these items to your list -
.html
Cat
PHPSESSID
sb
view
words
Limit

Set their qualifiers on GWT to "Let Googlebot decide"

These settings have been helpful for me since coming from 5.x, 6.x and 7.x versions before the SF-URLs were available.

BUT ULTIMATELY, if you want the spiders to get through your pages with less issues, turn on "Spider Friendly URLs" as Gizmo pointed out.
Thanks id242. When you add these parameters you have to select from two options: they do or do not affect or change the content. The answer is no to each of them, correct?


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Choose "do not affect"

Those qualifiers mostly just change how the stuff on the screen is displayed, but the information is the generally same as far as what a search engine will munch on, or what it even has access to.

If you're moving to Spider-Friendly URLs, those items will mostly be unseen by spiders. But its good to have them since your site has been around for quite a long time and I'm sure many people have posted your links all over without the Spider-Friendly URLs style.

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OK, I tried the mod, but it blew up my board. I did this:
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	 // There should be no '&amp;' or '&amp;amp;' in the url, strip those JIC
		$url = str_replace('&amp;', '&', $url);
		// Testing the new dash rather than underscore capability
		/* $title = ubbchars($title);
		$title = str_replace(' ', '_', trim($title));
		$title = str_replace( '%', '_', $title );
		$title = substr($title, 0, 30); */
						
		//SEO-friendly URL String Converter
		//ex) this is an example -> this-is-an-example
		$title = str_replace(array("&amp;","&nbsp;"), " ", $title); //replace space and ampersand markup
		$title = str_replace(array("&quot;","'"), "", $title); //replace quote markup
		$title = mb_convert_case($title, MB_CASE_LOWER, "UTF-8"); //convert to lowercase
		$title = preg_replace("#[^A-Za-z0-9]+#", "-", $title); //replace everything non-alphameric with dashes
		$title = preg_replace("#(-){2,}#", "$1", $title); //replace multiple dashes with one
		$title = trim($title, "-"); //trim dashes from beginning and end of string if any
		$title = substr($title, 0, 70); 
and got an undefined function error. What did I do wrong?


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Try it once again, being sure to copy the whole bit of code.

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I thought i did copy the entire code. What did I miss?


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I'm having the same issue. I have friendly URLs enabled and have all the parameters added to webmaster tools.
Clearly, the issue is the number following the word 'topics'.

Do you think there is anything that can be done about this?
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I can only assume that you implemented the code changes as well as friendly urls and now Google is re-indexing your site. So that can take quite some time.
In the meantime you will have a lot of duplication till it settles down.
It could take a very very long time.(Weeks,Months)
Unless possibly you resubmit a sitemap(Giz hack)

Probably something Giz and Id242 should have mentioned.


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Originally Posted by Ruben
I can only assume that you implemented the code changes as well as friendly urls and now Google is re-indexing your site. So that can take quite some time.
In the meantime you will have a lot of duplication till it settles down.
It could take a very very long time.(Weeks,Months)
Unless possibly you resubmit a sitemap(Giz hack)

Probably something Giz and Id242 should have mentioned.

Was there something Giz or myself should have mentioned that did not get mentioned?

Driv's screenshot does not look like he has the "Better URL Sanitization for SEO" installed. He looks to be running stock code.
If Driv does choose to manually install this fix/solution, a complete write-up can be found @ https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/255500


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No I am just saying even if he implemented all the fixes that he may need to wait while to be reindexed.


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The problem I see, is that Google is not only indexing the topic URL, but also the bookmark/link URL to the individual posts within those topics.


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Thank you for your responses gents. smile

Originally Posted by id242
Driv's screenshot does not look like he has the "Better URL Sanitization for SEO" installed. He looks to be running stock code.

Quite correct. However I shall use that mod (thanks), clearly it is needed as indicated by the x-ray / x_ray issue.

Another issue seems to be the use of Re: in the titles, but then I don't suppose that can be added to the Webmaster Tools parameter list.


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The problem I see, is that Google is not only indexing the topic URL, but also the bookmark/link URL to the individual posts within those topics.
Is anyone else getting this problem? Surely it can't just be me, can it?



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Not sure where your screen shot is from DRIV but this is my HTML improvements, omg. . .
If you can direct me to where you got the duplicate info i can check mine.

I did spot a crawler issue with Mobile devices. Click Me
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Inside the Duplicate title tags. ..

I don't have Better URL Sanitization for SEO included yet, but the others I do, spider friendly and extender.
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To Put it in context i have

933,228 Posts
69,585 Topics

So if its "Topics" Webmaster tools is reporting back that's more than 50% duplicates.
If its posts its only a small fraction, im not really sure which it is.

At the time of sharing the screen shots im using 7.5.8 and not using the Better URL Sanitization for SEO.
I have just implemented the Better URL Sanitization for SEO.
So lets see where we go.

IGNORE THIS IMAGE its for another topic, but i cant upload there.
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