URL plays a big role in SEO, and duplicate post titles can negatively affect your website’s SEO performance. If you are a WordPress admin, you must know that when you create a duplicate post title, it adds a number at the end of the URL slug. However, it still counted as duplicate posts in SEO terms, and one should avoid using them.
How to Prevent Duplicate Post Titles in WordPress?
If you are using a blog with multi-admin, then you will face duplicate posts frequently. To avoid duplicate post titles, you can use the Duplicate Title Validate plugin. When you create a new post and put the title, it informs you that “This title is unique.”
This Duplicate Title Validate plugin does not only inform you about duplicate posts when you will try to publish duplicate posts, but it will also stop you, and the post will be saved as a draft, showing a red notice, “Posted considered to have been released as a duplicate.”
The best part of this plugin is that no configuration is required; install this plugin, activate it, and are all done. Presently, Duplicate Title Validate plugin version 1.0 is available for download and compatible up to WordPress 4.0.
