[Support request] How do I stop posts from being tagged as archive?

[Todd]

How do I stop posts from showing up on Google as both a current post and an archive post?

I’d asked a similar question when blog posts were showing up as archive, made a suggested change, (I forgot what the change was), but now its showing up on Google search results as both a current post and an archive post.

I don’t see a way to show a screenshot of the issue, but if one Google searches ram collision repair minooka, they’ll see it.

Any help is appreciated, I don’t want SEO to be impacted for duplicate content.

[Tom]

Hi Todd,

I’m not too sure what you mean. Do you mean the titles in your search results are including the word “Archive”?

[David]

This is what i see when i google it – the same post shows up as a live post and an archived post.

https://1drv.ms/i/s!AkmyF7o2B-NGhlUJRHEuJQqWaJOy

[Tom]

Are you using a plugin like Yoast SEO? If not, I would suggest installing it. It allows you to set your titles for archive pages etc..

[Todd]

Hi Tom, yes I’m using Yoast. I have author archives and date archives set to “disabled”. It indicates that “links to archives might still be output by your theme and you need to remove them separately”. What I’m most concerned with is the duplicate content.

[Tom]

Ah, so you’re using a static page to display those posts? Using a plugin probably?

You could potentially set up 301 redirects using a plugin or your .htaccess file so the archive page redirects to your custom page.

[Todd]

Hmmm… The blog posts show up on a page other than the home page, but that’s setup through the WordPress settings not a plugin… Settings>Reading>Front page displays

A Static Page

Front Page: Static URL
Posts Page: Static URL

Is that not correct?

I’d love to have the blog posts on the front page below a static portion of the page but I can’t figure out how to do that, although I’ve seen it on other sites.

[Tom]

Hmm maybe I’m confused.

Are you simply trying to remove this from your title on archive pages?: https://www.screencast.com/t/LVlJG2sENiG

[Todd]

Yes that’s correct. I’ve basically got duplicates showing up on Google… That’s an issue for SEO. Then to make matters worse the title reads “archive” despite the post being new. Actually any of the titles that read “archive” I doubt anyone would click on because they’d assume they’re old, but from what I understand that’s a WordPress thing.

[Tom]

I’m not seeing any duplicates, at least in the screenshot. Those are all different pages with different content. The archives page which shows snippets of blog posts doesn’t count as duplicate content.

As for removing the “Archives” part, that’s done in Yoast SEO inside the “SEO > Titles & Metas” area.

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