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Greetings!
I’m not certain whether this is due to the way that RankMath is managing the conversion between removing the parent category part of the URL or if it is something else, but I am suddenly experiencing an increase in errors on the site as determined using SemRush.
For example, I suddenly have 24 pages with duplicate meta tag descriptions, title tags, and content. Here’s an example of one of the pages:

The line at the top is the new URL, the line in the middle is the original URL, and the line at the bottom is something that happened somewhere along the way and I don’t know when or why.
I did change the parent category to default in an attempt to shorten the URL and so I know that I created one of the two options and now I’m not certain whether to leave it, try to fix it, or hey I know, I’ll stop messing around and ask the good people at Rank Math before I screw things up further 😉
Thanks for your help! Site access details are provided.
— Todd
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
I have checked the affected page and it contains duplicate OpenGraph tags, the extra tags are registered by the Social Warfare plugin.
I’ve gone ahead and disabled OG tags from this plugin from the settings page and this has removed the duplicates. Could you please check if the error is still reported in SemRush?
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Hi Michael,
Thank you for trying to help me resolve this issue. Unfortunately, something is still not quite right.
I cleared cache on Pegasaas, Cloudflare, and my browser – three times.
I’m still getting a bunch of pages with duplicate meta tags, titles, etc.
Here’s the list:
https://niceice.com/15-seconds-diamond-buying-success/
3 pages 13 Jan 2020 (13:06)https://niceice.com/calculating-diamond-proportions/
2 pages 12 Jan 2020 (13:47)https://niceice.com/diamond-buying-secrets-maximizing-sparkle/15-seconds-diamond-buying-success/
3 pages 13 Jan 2020 (13:06)https://niceice.com/diamond-buying-secrets-maximizing-sparkle/5-minutes-diamond-buying-success/
2 pages 12 Jan 2020 (13:47)https://niceice.com/diamond-buying-secrets-maximizing-sparkle/engagement-ring-shopping-30-minutes-or-less/
3 pages 12 Jan 2020 (13:47)https://niceice.com/diamond-buying-secrets-maximizing-sparkle/holloway-cut-adviser-reviews/
3 pages 12 Jan 2020 (13:47)https://niceice.com/diamond-buying-secrets-maximizing-sparkle/how-does-diamond-shape-affect-price/
3 pages 12 Jan 2020 (13:47)https://niceice.com/diamond-buying-secrets-maximizing-sparkle/how-old-is-your-diamond/
3 pages 12 Jan 2020 (13:47)https://niceice.com/diamond-buying-secrets-maximizing-sparkle/which-ideal-cut-diamond-should-you-buy/
3 pages 12 Jan 2020 (13:47)https://niceice.com/diamond-buying-secrets/15-seconds-diamond-buying-success/
Any ideas?
— Todd
Note that I’m also getting warnings about 18 redirect loops. Obviously, I’ve got something set totally wrong 🙁
Blue Nile Canadian Diamonds Review – Diamonds from Canada at Blue Nile
https://niceice.com/blue-nile-canadian-diamonds-review-ld03294240/ (301) https://niceice.com/diamond-education/4cs-expanded/diamond-cut-quality/tolkowsky-ideal-cut/ Chain of URLs 4 13 Jan 2020 (14:06)Already purchased Blue Nile Diamond before reading your site!
https://niceice.com/blue-nile-diamond-review-ld03319426/ (301) https://niceice.com/diamond-education/4cs-expanded/diamond-cut-quality/tolkowsky-ideal-cut/ Chain of URLs 4 13 Jan 2020 (14:06)Brian Gavin Signature Round & James Allen True Hearts Comparison
https://niceice.com/choosing-between-brian-gavin-s…ure-round-and-james-allen-true-hearts-diamonds/ (301) https://niceice.com/diamond-education/4cs-expanded/diamond-cut-quality/tolkowsky-ideal-cut/ Chain of URLs 4 13 Jan 2020 (14:06)Comparison of Blue Nile and James Allen Diamonds for UK Purchase
https://niceice.com/comparison-blue-nile-james-allen-diamonds-ld02417532/ (301) https://niceice.com/diamond-education/4cs-expanded/diamond-cut-quality/tolkowsky-ideal-cut/ Chain of URLs 4 13 Jan 2020 (14:06)Crafted by Infinity Diamond Review ~ from Zero to Sixty in 3.5
https://niceice.com/crafted-by-infinity-diamond-review-ags104051976002/ (301) https://niceice.com/diamond-education/4cs-expanded/diamond-cut-quality/tolkowsky-ideal-cut/ Chain of URLs 4 13 Jan 2020 (14:06)Crafted by Infinity Diamond Review 2.538 carat, I-color, VS-2, H&A
https://niceice.com/crafted-by-infinity-diamond-review-ags104055661001/ (301) https://niceice.com/diamond-education/4cs-expanded/diamond-cut-quality/tolkowsky-ideal-cut/ Chain of URLs 4 13 Jan 2020 (14:06)Crafted by Infinity Diamond Review: 1.228 carat, F-color, VS-1, H&A
https://niceice.com/crafted-by-infinity-diamond-review-ags104063757001/ (301) https://niceice.com/diamond-education/4cs-expanded/diamond-cut-quality/tolkowsky-ideal-cut/ Chain of URLs 4 13 Jan 2020 (14:06)Diamond Design by Marcel Tolkowsky for Ideal Cut Diamonds
https://niceice.com/diamond-design-by-marcel-tolkowsky-round-brilliant-ideal-cut-diamond/ (301) https://niceice.com/diamond-education/4cs-expanded/diamond-cut-quality/tolkowsky-ideal-cut/ Chain of URLs 4 13 Jan 2020 (14:06)The Effect of Diamond Proportions on the Brightness of a Diamond
https://niceice.com/diamond-grading-101/diamond-proportions-and-brightness/ (301) https://niceice.com/diamond-education/4cs-expanded/diamond-cut-quality/tolkowsky-ideal-cut/ Chain of URLs 4 13 Jan 2020 (14:06)What do diamond proportions and HCA score have to do with light return
https://niceice.com/diamond-proportions-light-leakage/ (301) https://niceice.com/diamond-education/4cs-expanded/diamond-cut-quality/tolkowsky-ideal-cut/Update: I have deactivated RankMath but you can re-activate it and try to debug the problem that appears to be a conflict with Pegasaas.
SemRush indicates that a bunch of pages are no-indexed due to robots.txt
I renamed the file so that RankMath can do its thing. The moment that I clicked Save, I was flooded with a really long list of php index not found errors pertaining to Pegasaas.
Deactivate RankMath and it all goes away. Obviously there is some sort of conflict between the two plug-ins that I’m hoping you can resolve at the same time you address this other core issue.
Thank you.
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Most of the pages causing the errors are 404 pages, I have checked through all the pages but there are no duplicate tags. As a temporary solution, I’ve enabled automatic redirection to the homepage for 404 pages via Rank Math > General Settings > Redirections. You can however disable this option and set it to default 404 and then redirect each of the affected links to the page that you would want the visitor to be taken.
In regards to the conflict, I have reported this problem to our dev team and we will be getting back to you in a short while. I have disable the Pegassus plugin at the moment so as not to affect your SEO.
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
The redirect issue changed because I flushed the redirects last night in an attempt to resolve the issue.
I’ll go through and manually rebuild the 404’s and see where things stand.
Thank you.
— Todd
Hi Todd,
Thanks for the additional info.
We are checking this and you can expect a response with more info in a short while.
I hope this helps. Thank you.
Hi Todd,
I am glad that most of the issues are fixed.
You are right, you can’t do much about making those paginated pages and you don’t have to. Those are all noindex so that means it won’t end up in Google SERPs which is one more reason not to have ANY meta tags on them let alone dupe/originals.
We are checking the Pegasus issue and we will revert to you about that on the email you sent describing the issue.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thanks, Michael.
I think that I’m making progress on this as well.
SemRush is only showing duplicate meta tags and titles for the blog post pages now:
https://niceice.com/blog/page/31/
https://niceice.com/blog/page/21/
https://niceice.com/blog/page/8/
https://niceice.com/blog/page/26/
https://niceice.com/blog/page/4/
https://niceice.com/blog/page/16/
https://niceice.com/blog/page/38/
https://niceice.com/blog/page/28/
https://niceice.com/blog/page/6/
https://niceice.com/blog/page/18/There’s not much we can do about that I’m guessing.
I believe that leaves the conflict with Pegasaas and I’ll leave you to it 😉
— Todd
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
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