How can i see the pages that cause duplicate content?

[5MMedia]

SEOmoz PRO is giving me back duplicate content errors. However, i don't see how i can get a list of pages that are duplicate to the one shown. If i don't know which pages/urls cause the issue i can't really fix it. The only way would be placing canonical tags but that's not always the best solution.

Is there a way to see the actual duplicate pages?

[AvenueSeo]

Yes, you can click on the error/duplicate content link and the pages will list.  It will list the other pages below the bolded listing.  Hope that  helps.

[Netlogiq]

You can also export the document:

Crawl Diagnosis - Duplicate page content - export to CVS. Or - click on the +x number of duplicate pages, and you will see all the duplicate pages for that URL.

[josh-riley]

Now, I'll preface this by saying I don't know what documents you may be looking at vs what I have access to. I see duplicate links from SEOMOz, so you can get to it.

For example, when I log into my SEOMoz campaign information and click on the red errors box, then the duplicate content box, there's a selection of duplicate URLs right below the chart. My current one is indicating it caught 29 duplicate pages of content for my Spanish signs product section, then I can see all the URLs listed out that it sees as duplicates.

Granted, SEOMoz only crawls 10,000URLs at a time, so for a major site like mine that's only part of what we have, but it's an indicator of stuff we need to fix. I download my campaign report into a CSV file and there's columns in that identifying what's duplicate, too.

[5MMedia]

Hmmm not quite clear yet..

When i click on the issue in the overview a list of pages which have a duplicate content issue, opens. Then when i click on one of those links the only thing i see is a bold URL and some information about the duplicate content. But i don't see the url that is duplicate to the one displayed bold.

[5MMedia]

Ummm.. i just found it. Not having bright moments today. shame. You must click on the number which is in the column "Other urls's". I was clicking on the page title shown in the column: "Page title url"

Didn't really jump to mind to click on the number.

Everything in order! Thx for responding everyone!

[josh-riley]

Exactly. The download gives much deeper data, however with a few clicks that Netlogiq suggested you can find it w/o downloading.

[josh-riley]

No shame! There's a ton of data here and it can be a bit of a needle in a haystack at first to figure out That's why these forums are so helpful!

[5MMedia]

True! it's really helpful! I might have one more question regarding this. When i export to csv i get a ton of data. I open the file in Excel and seperate the data to columns. The pages that have duplicate content issues are marked as "true". But how can i see within this document which pages are duplicate for another specific page?

[josh-riley]

OK, within that Excel file, there's a column header with "duplicate page content" - so, the URL in question will be in the far left (URL) then there's a column that says "duplicate page" (with true/false as the options) and if it's true, then there's another column with "duplicate page content" as a header and URLs in it. Those should be the ones that Moz caught duplicating the URL in the "URL" column - if that makes any sense at all!

[5MMedia]

That surely makes sense! But when i look at the column that says duplicate_page_content then there is nothing shown.. even if they are marked as true. I must be missing something...

[josh-riley]

The only other thing I can think of is there's duplicate page content and duplicate title content. If it says true in either of those columns then there's no URLs in the columns to the right of it (headed  duplicate_page_content  or duplicate_title) then I'd contact Moz and work with them. Mine populate fine.