author archive pages in Google cause duplicate entries

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  kileytoo · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 5:23 pm

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  hello everyone, I just found out my blog (more like a site with a blog section) shows up in Google, however in addition to posts also author pages were indexed. By author pages I mean pages like grazers.wordpress.com/author/kileytoo/page/[number]

  maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have selected 1 posts per page, or that I have no “posts page,” however the result is that there are two entries in google for each post, which, I don’t know, doesn’t seem right. Does this happen to every blog, that posts are indexed twice, by their true url and as author pages?

  In the blog, the only difference is that these archive pages do not have the comments section at the bottom, only a comment button, but this isn’t a big deal: users can click it and then they are redirected to the actual post, I think most people wouldn’t even notice they are on a different url…

  …but in Google the archive entries have a title like “kileytoo | grazers | page 2” instead of the post title, which kinda sucks because Google you don’t see the title, and also because my username is not supposed to show up at all in this blog… Do you know if changing my display name would affect the title of the author pages, and how long will it take to Google to read my pages again?

  I found a similar topic called “dulicate title tags,” but somehow didn’t help too much

  thanks!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kileytoo · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 5:37 pm

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  sorry a few corrections (you can’t edit your own posts here, right?)
  the “main” difference is that these archive pages
  most people “won’t” even notice
  because you don’t see the title

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  kileytoo · Member · Nov 20, 2010 at 7:18 pm

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  I just found out that yet nother type of url indexed by Google, so there may be three urls for same post, for example:

  http://grazers.wordpress.com/author/kileytoo/page/2/
  http://grazers.wordpress.com/page/2/
  http://grazers.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/dont-call-me-tarpan/

  I thought the third was the only “true” url for a post, but now I’m not so sure anymore. The first two are returned first by Google, actually I’m not even sure the third is returned at all