Answers.Body: <p>You'll need to add more details about your current setup for a more specific answer.</p>
  
  <p>In general, adding a number to the Meta Title and Meta Description is probably not a good approach to solve your problem of duplicates. Search engines score your page based on how relevant your content is. Adding a number, unless it has some meaning (perhaps a date for an event, tax form number, or <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=241543903&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS754US754&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiwif2q2srWAhXB4iYKHTZeDvkQ_AUICigB&amp;biw=1547&amp;bih=905" rel="nofollow noreferrer">241543903</a>), is just going to be noise and not help your page rank in any meaningful way.</p>
  
  <p>Consider what other data you have in your posts. Can you add the name of a category some items are in? Can you add the name of a User that posted the content? Often there is a way to take a generic page and add a second dimension of data to make it more meaningful.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Generic Name - Category 1 - Site Name
  Generic Name - Category 2 - Site Name
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Alternatively, if the pages really are not meaningful, consider pointing search engines to <a href="https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">a more meaningful canonical URL</a>. For example, if you have a paginated index page, sometimes all the secondary pages will appear to have the same metadata.</p>
  
  <p>In these cases you can add the <code>canonical</code> meta tag to point back to the primary page as the one that should be recognized by search engines.</p>
  
  <pre><code>https://website.com/section (points to self with metadata)
  
  https://website.com/section/2 (points to main section page with metadata)
  &lt;link rel="canonical" href="https://website.com/section" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
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Body: <p>Want to add page number to title and meta description because I have a lot of duplicates. Could you tell me how I can do it?  </p>
  
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Comments.Text: What's a "page number" (the entry ID?) and where do you want to add this? To the entries' titles when they are saved, or in a template when the entries are rendered?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Mats Mikkel Rummelhoff
Tags: <pagination><meta>
Title: Add page number to Title and meta desc
ThreadText: # Add page number to Title and meta desc
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-09-25)
  
  Want to add page number to title and meta description because I have a lot of duplicates. Could you tell me how I can do it?
  
  **Tags:** pagination, meta
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: What's a "page number" (the entry ID?) and where do you want to add this? To the entries' titles when they are saved, or in a template when the entries are rendered?  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-09-29. Score: 2
  
  You'll need to add more details about your current setup for a more specific answer.
  
  In general, adding a number to the Meta Title and Meta Description is probably not a good approach to solve your problem of duplicates. Search engines score your page based on how relevant your content is. Adding a number, unless it has some meaning (perhaps a date for an event, tax form number, or [241543903](https://www.google.com/search?q=241543903&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS754US754&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwif2q2srWAhXB4iYKHTZeDvkQ_AUICigB&biw=1547&bih=905)), is just going to be noise and not help your page rank in any meaningful way.
  
  Consider what other data you have in your posts. Can you add the name of a category some items are in? Can you add the name of a User that posted the content? Often there is a way to take a generic page and add a second dimension of data to make it more meaningful.
  
  ```
  Generic Name - Category 1 - Site Name
  Generic Name - Category 2 - Site Name
  
  ```
  
  Alternatively, if the pages really are not meaningful, consider pointing search engines to [a more meaningful canonical URL](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en). For example, if you have a paginated index page, sometimes all the secondary pages will appear to have the same metadata.
  
  In these cases you can add the `canonical` meta tag to point back to the primary page as the one that should be recognized by search engines.
  
  ```
  https://website.com/section (points to self with metadata)
  
  https://website.com/section/2 (points to main section page with metadata)
  <link rel="canonical" href="https://website.com/section" />
  
  ```
  
  
  ---
  
  