Duplicate Titles - Bing

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Bing is stating that I have too many duplicate titles but is counting pages 1, 2, 3 under every collection. Is this a theme issue or is there a way to fix this? Please see picture attached below.

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Hi Hanna,

This isn’t exactly a theme issue — it’s a normal behavior in Shopify.
By default, Shopify uses the same <title> for all paginated collection URLs (?page=2, ?page=3, etc.), so Bing detects them as duplicates.

To fix this, we can do one of the following:

  1. Add dynamic titles for paginated pages
    Example: “Baby Girl All – Page 2”, “Baby Girl All – Page 3”, etc.

  2. Add proper canonical tags
    This tells Bing that page 1 is the main URL, and prevents duplicate-title issues.

  3. Noindex the paginated URLs
    This is the cleanest SEO approach and avoids duplicate content entirely.

Let me know which option you prefer and I’ll take care of it.

— Chris

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Hey pal @Hannahrose !

Hi there! This is a common issue. Bing flags these as duplicates because pages 1, 2, and 3 share the exact same meta title. You need to append the page number to the browser title.

  • Go to Online Store > Themes > Edit Code.

  • Open theme.liquid.

  • Find the tag.

  • Paste this snippet inside the tag, right before :

{% if current_page > 1 %} - Page {{ current_page }}{% endif %}

Result: Titles will now read “Collection Name - Page 2”, making them unique.

Hope this helps!

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3 easy solutions

Pagination to infinite scroll to get rid of pages.

Condense collections into subcollecollection pages by creating new templates. No sense in going page 2, page 3 looking for men’s socks when I could just click on mens collection.

Canonical tags.