Title: Duplicate posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Duplicate posts

 *  Resolved [kospa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kospa/)
 * (@kospa)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-12/)
 * According to Google Webmaster Tools, there are 256 pages with duplicate title
   tags and 251 pages with duplicate meta descriptions on my blog.
 * Duplicate pages look like this:
 * /some-directory/96/
    /some-directory/96/some-url/
 * Any help how to solve this problem?
 * Thanks,
    Alex

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-12/#post-2785211)
 * What are those pages? Are they actually posts or are they something else?
 * What’s your permalink structure?
 * Normally WP applies a redirect to the shorter URLs so google knows what the real
   one is, so that’s not an issue for posts and pages.
 *  Thread Starter [kospa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kospa/)
 * (@kospa)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-12/#post-2785220)
 * They are actual posts.
    Permalink structure is /%post_id%/%postname%/ Google 
   considers them duplicate, that’s how I found these posts in webmaster tools.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-12/#post-2785300)
 * Interesting. Google doesn’t usually do that.
 * Most likely reasons are your theme or a plugin is somehow messing with the normal
   301 redirect WP uses.
 * What WP does is apply a canonical URL to your site, so while you can get to the
   same page different ways, only the one in your permalinks is ‘real.’

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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-posts-12/#post-2785300)
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