I fixed the comment page two problem by using the canonical plugin.

Also, I added this to my theme code, in the header:
else if (is_home()) {
bloginfo(‘name’); echo ” – “; bloginfo(‘description’);
if ( $paged < 2 ) { } else { echo (‘ Page ‘); echo ($paged);
}
That basically says “if this is the home page, add the blog name, the blog descripition; if $paged is 1, do nothing, if $paged is more than one, say Page 2 (or 3 or 4 or whatever).”

You really have to be comfortable with PHP to add that “if” line, but you can add anywhere there might be a Page 2, like a category.

If you’re talking about the duplicate content problem that Leora was having specifically, then all I can really say is I’ll be writing a new tutorial on JungleJar soon to cover the issue. This tutorial was written before the comment paging feature was added to Wordpress.

Sorry guys.

As I’m not very good at wordpress, a simpler option than that heavy code would be nice.

One example of this is the Feedburner E-mail plugin. Unless you know how to tweak the code up, your website is not going to validate, heh.

I might try this method instead of the plugin, which doesn’t seem to work.

For the blogs/websites that do use separate comment pages, one could whip up a little bit of extra PHP code consisting of not a lot more than an if else statement.

As far as Google Webmaster nailing you for duplicate description tags..well, chances are Google Webmaster is also nailing you for duplicate content in general, because you are using the same heading (post title — not talking about the actual meta tag page title) on both the post and comments page. Most likely the rest of the search engines that matter are doing the same thing. So, with that said, you might want to display your comments on the same page as your post. Otherwise you’ll be running into SEO issues whether you use the code snippet I provided in this tutorial or not.