Many identical pages with the same title
There are a lot of pages with the same title. For example "Profile Feed". If 1000 users register on the site, then at least 1000 pages with the title “Profile Feed” will appear.
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Also, pages with a title like: “Ivan Mishchenko Added a discussion” are repeated many times. Maybe somehow add numbers to them. For example: “Ivan Mishchenko Added a discussion-1”, “Ivan Mishchenko Added a discussion-2”. Or add a date: “Ivan Mishchenko Added a discussion 4.04.2024.”
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Same thing with comment pages. For example: “Comment to Many identical pages with the same title”, it would be better “Comment to Many identical pages with the same title 1” or “Comment to Many identical pages with the same title 4.04.2024”.
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Could you elaborate about what is the concern? Do you see it as an SEO or usability issue? I'm not sure what's the benefit of making titles unique?
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Yes, search engines greatly lower a site’s ranking if it has many identical headings. Often, due to duplicate headers, bots get confused and do not crawl website pages because they consider similar pages to be the same.
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Or it can remove links from dates that lead to such pages and the bot, in theory, will not be able to find them, since there are no links anywhere else except in the date.
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My SEO tool confirms that. I have very poor ratings because of duplicate content and meta info.
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Regarding the H1 tag, all profile pages, including: info, Friends, Posts and so on, have the same H1 header. It seems to me that the H1 header should be left only on the main profile page, and on all others, only the title without the H1 header should be left. Or add, for example, not just “Ivan Mishchenko”, but “Ivan Mishchenko - info”, “Ivan Mishchenko - Friends” and so on. On these pages the title is correct, but the H1 header is the same on all of them.
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There is also a problem when the same page opens at two URLs. This can be noticed if you disable SEO links: https://unacms.com/d/changing-urls
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I looked at several sites with a similar structure; they also have a clickable date, but it leads to the article itself, discussion, and so on.
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I agree about the comments. At some point we made a decision to generate a separate page for each comment, mimicking Twitter experience where each tweet had a page. Rethinking it now - looks like we'd be better off with new module that creates threads of responses, and lave comments on parent page only. It is a bit complicated when pagination is on and we need to link/point to specific comment, which means we need to pull it out from potentially hidden sequence, but it can be done. We did something like that in NEO and will bring to UNA.
There will be a challenge of redirecting old comment URLs to inline comments though.
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Oooo yes, that would be wonderful if you changed it so that there is no longer a page for each comment, and instead a single page featuring all comments along with the original post! That was the first major feedback we have received on our new site, that it's confusing to click on a notification and only see your reply, and not see what you originally replied to!
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I looked at several sites with a similar structure; for most, when you click on the date of a post in the feed, it redirects to the page of the post itself, and not to a separate page.
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May I ask you what the name of your SEO tool is? Thank you.
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I use the paid version of seobility. www.seobility.net
