Duplicate content issues

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

Let’s go through your questions one by one:

1. Which forum plugin are you using? So we can determine the cause

2. You don’t have to worry about showing excerpts, it is duplicated content, true; but Google is able to understand the website structure and it will know it is not like you have the same post twice.

3. The recommendations here are much longer than just a little answer so I would strongly recommend to check this post: https://wordlift.io/blog/en/pagination-seo-wordpress-plugin/

4. About this question, I will be able to answer it in my answer to your question 6

5. No, the Schema should be used just to indicate Google the type of the content (and maybe show some Rich Snippets in results), it doesn’t affect it.

6. You should set the Canonical URL to the post, since there is the content you want to rank on Google. This would also help with your paginated comments. When you look at the URL in paginated comments, it is something like: https://website.com/post#comment-page-2

If you set a canonical to https://website.com/post, each duplicate of the page showing the next page of comments will tell Google that the important URL is https://website.com so you will avoid duplicates.

Don’t worry about all the questions, that is why we are here, to help you.

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

I have created a WPForo forum with empty topics then tetsted on siteliner but I can’t replicate the duplicate content issue. I’d recommend you follow the outlined duplicate content URLs shown on your test and inspect them. It seems to be something to do with this filter: https://i.rankmath.com/MuXqiZ

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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Hello,

I guess once you let them know which SEO plugin you are using they will be able to give you indications about what settings you should change to make it work better.

If you prefer to use in the forums their SEO system and in the rest of the website the SEO from Rank Math, we had a user previously who asked about it, you can read his thread here: https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/disable-rank-math-on-specific-page/

Looking forward to help you.

Hello,

You can add it ti function.php and check your pages as follows

if(is_wpforo_page()) {
  // it is a forum page
}
 

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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Hello,

Don’t worry, we are here to help you. The code you should add would be just this one:

add_action( 'wp_head', function(){
	if( is_wpforo_page() ) {
		remove_all_actions( 'rank_math/head' );
		add_action( 'wp_head', '_wp_render_title_tag', 2 );
	}
}, 1 );

Looking forward to help you.

Hello,

The best way to test it is just to see (after some time) if Google indexes it fine. But you could test the pages in http://metatags.io/ and see if the meta tags you added are displayed as you want.

Looking forward to help you.

Hello,

We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

Thank you.