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I have been using Rank Math for some months and find it allows very fine tuning of conent SEO, I also use sitebulb for auditing and analysis with their sitemap installed in the root of my site. I have an issue which I need answering as it is affecting my traffic and I will have to give some detail about the site and setup in the hope that you can advise.
My website is at https://infoshield.co.uk and features a directory for antique related businesses in the UK fully searchable with different criteria such as city, county, postcode and keywords. Results are shown paginated under a url such as infoshield.co.uk/directory/?cn-s=railway&cn-cat= resulting in basic business displays limited to 10 per page, then clicking an individual item takes you to a detail page such as infoshield.co.uk/directory/name/g-w-railwayana-auctions-ltd/ . I have used the sitebulb indexed url list which has about 1600 of the detail results as my sitemap set to be indexed and followed in Rank Math.
The issue now is that Google have indexed all the urls as instructed where the only change in result is the business name meaming that they appear to treat the detail results as “Duplicate Content” Sitebulb also report that this is the case. The only thing I can find on the web are comments that a site like this should actually have the detail url set to “Noindex but Follow” or that YOAST has a solution which removes the duplicate content issue where items by necessity appear to have identical or similar content.
I desperately need to show these business detail results as individuals in SERPS but using site:infoshield.co.uk shows only a few results.
Yor advice would be most welcome as I am sure that there are many sites with the same sort of issue and Rank Math is becoming much mor widely used because of its ability to pinpoint and fine tune.
Regards,
Richard M
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Hello,
Could you please share some screenshots if what you are seeing from your end.
My suggestion was for you to find a way to make the descriptions, that is, if you are able to edit the descriptions for each of your directory listings. Could you share the exact directory plugin you are using?
We can also take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
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