Dear Community

My Website has several Categories with lots of articles. Every category has it's unique meta description and title. But if Pagination is activated and there are like 10 pages in 1 category with let's say 15 Items per Page, the Category title and meta description stays always the same. This is a problem in SEO Aspects, so that Google Webmaster Tools tells me, that I have duplicate title and meta description on my page. I am already using rel prev and rel next, but this doesn't help with this issue. Is there a possibility to add with php automatically the page-number for each page to avoid duplicate titles and metas? Would be great if someone could tell me, where and maybe how i could solve this problem.

Sincerly

Michael

Hello Michael

You can use the $paged variable to add metatags
To add the metatags you want you can use Joomla!'s setMetadata Fuction
docs.joomla.org/JDocument/setMetaData

Hi Krikor, Thank you for the hint with meta tags. The Meta and title thing is clear now... But I don't get it how to use $paged with an if function. Could you give me an example?

I tried a lot of different ways, but none of them seems to work. something like;

<?php if($paged < 2): ?>

<?php echo xxx ?>

<?php endif; ?>

or simply if($paged) echo xy, but this does not work at all.

I also thought of using this string:

$this->pagination->getPagesCounter()

But this gives me an error if i try to use this with an if function.

Thank you anyway for your Help!

Michael

I've found another solution:

Because i didn't get it worked with $paged, i used instead this code: