Duplicate Page Warnings, hkey and repetitive URLs

[lyndas]

Hi, we just put our association's site in SEO Moz so we can tackle SEO and we received thousands of duplicate page content and duplicate title warnings. I searched the forum before asking

Appreciate some guidance on how many things are wrong with the URL's below that are getting flagged as duplicate page content.

1. Does the repetition of the page title and section hurt SEO?

2. Does the iMIS15 in the URL (the server) detract from relevant ranking?

3. From the forum, it looks like canonical tags should be added to the version of the page that starts with .....?hkey  (is there a way to predict and "canonize" these? Or recommendations?)

http://www.iiba.org/imis15/IIBA/About_IIBA/IIBA_Website/About_IIBA/About_IIBA.aspx?hkey=6d821afa-e3aa-4bef-bafa-2453238d12c6

http://www.iiba.org/imis15/IIBA/About_IIBA/IIBA_Website/About_IIBA/About_IIBA.aspx

Thank you.

[dohertyjf]

Hi Lynda -

I hope I can help out here

One. Yes. If you have the same page titles on either pages or section pages, this can hurt SEO because you are targeting the same keywords on the same pages. I recommend reviewing this - http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/basics-of-search-engine-friendly-design-and-development and this - http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

Two. I am not familiar with  iMIS15, but if this is just a parameter at the end of the URL, that should be ok.

Three. Seems like these are parameters appended onto the URL. A canonical tag will deal with these issues, but it would be better to get the system to stop generating these. You can block them in Google Webmaster Tools, using the Search Parameters section, but this is just a temporary fix. You need to deal with the base of the issue, the fact that the extra parameters are being generated and causing dup content.

[lyndas]

Hi John,

Thank you for your input and URL's to find more info, I had looked at the first one but  I was not clear that I was referring to repetition in the URL ITSELF.

**http://www.iiba.org/imis15/IIBA/_About_IIBA_/IIBA_Website/_About_IIBA_/_About_IIBA_.aspx **
(the section and page name are both repeated twice)

1. Would this repetition within a URL be considered "stuffing" and be bad from an SEO standpoint?

3. The site is ranking better for Imis15 than for the main keywords so the repeating of that word in every url seems to help that word

Appreciate it if you can give me your thoughts on #1.