How can I fix duplicate meta descriptions and blocked pages on my site?

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Topic summary

A Shopify store owner is experiencing four SEO-related issues identified through Ubersuggest scanning:

Main Problems:

  • Duplicate meta descriptions across collection pages with pagination (e.g., Rolling Trays spanning 3 pages)
  • 8 pages blocked from search engines (cart, terms of service, return policy, etc.) - attempted fix with noindex code didn’t resolve the issue
  • Poorly formatted URLs for paginated collection pages
  • Missing meta descriptions on 7 collection pages

Proposed Solutions:

For duplicate descriptions: Manually add unique meta descriptions for each paginated collection page via Shopify admin under “Edit website SEO.” One responder suggests the issue may stem from previously installed apps that modified meta tag code, recommending a code audit to identify conflicting meta description tags.

For blocked pages: Remove the noindex code from theme.liquid (the code added was actually causing blocking, not fixing it).

For URL formatting: Add page handles to collection URLs (e.g., “rolling-trays?page=2”) through the “URL and handle” field in SEO settings.

For missing descriptions: Follow the same process as duplicate descriptions - add unique content for each collection page.

The discussion remains open with no confirmation of resolution from the original poster.

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Hello everyone! I have a few SEO issues:

  1. I did a scan on Ubersuggest and was informed 13 pages with duplicate meta data. I noticed the duplicates are from collections with multiple pages. For example, Rolling Trays has 3 pages in the collection, so both have the same meta descriptions, same with a few other categories. Is there a way to fix this? I can follow directions, but am not knowledgable with coding, but any help is appreciated.

  2. I have 8 pages being blocked from appearing in search engines. The pages are the cart, terms of service, return policy, etc. None of the pages are product pages. Any way to correct this? I read on a previous post to add this to the theme.liquid layout field:

{% if template contains ‘search’ %}

{% endif %}

But it did not fix the issue.

  1. Poorly formatted URL for SEO → These are again product collections with multiple pages, rolling trays x 3 pages, tumblers x 2 pages, etc. Anyway to change the URL for each page of a collection?

  2. No meta description for collection pages, there are 7 pages. Can you add a meta description for each collection page?

I appreciate any help from anyone! Thank you in advance, your time and knowledge is appreciated.

J

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Hello @JoCoCustomDesig ,

I am Gina from flareAI app helping Shopify merchants get $5Million+ in sales from Google Search, on autopilot. I am here to support you.

  1. To fix the issue of duplicate meta descriptions on collection pages with multiple pages, you can add a custom meta description for each page. To do this, go to the collection page in your Shopify admin, click on “Edit website SEO” under “Search engine listing preview”, and add a unique meta description for each page.

  2. If you want to unblock the pages from search engines, you can remove the “noindex” tag from the meta robots tag. Adding “noindex” will block your page from indexing by search engines. Remove the following code from the theme.liquid:

{% if template contains ‘search’ %}

{% endif %}

  1. To change the URL for each page of a collection, you can add a page handle to the end of the collection URL. For example, if your collection URL is “rolling-trays”, you can add a page handle like “rolling-trays?page=2” for the second page of the collection. To do this, go to the collection page in your Shopify admin, click on “Edit website SEO” under “Search engine listing preview”, and add the page handle to the end of the URL in the “URL and handle” field.

  2. To add a meta description for each collection page, follow the steps in step 1 above and add a unique meta description for each page. This will help improve the SEO of your collection pages and make them more attractive to search engines and potential customers.

I hope this is useful.

Gina

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Hi @JoCoCustomDesig

I have fully read your question here and concerning the duplicated meta description issue, please note that as long as you added meta description contents properly from backend, this issue shall be caused by other APPs you installed before, because some APPs will comment or replace original meta title and meta description code contents with their owns and after uninstalling, the original code will not work. To help resolve this issue, it is better to double-check your store backend code pages and see if there exists more than one meta description-related code on the website. In this way, your website will have one meta description content only after detecting and the original meta description code content will work normally as well.

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