Keeping Roger Happy - The Dynamic Dilema!

[Webpresence]

Roger (the SEOMoz robot) is reporting 1000’s of duplicate pages, duplicate titles and overly dynamic URL’s. These are being caused by our dynamic forum/shopping/testimonial pages.

I appreciate Roger’s efforts and for making me aware of the situation, but should I be worrying about this too much? I believe that this shouldn’t affect rankings or SEO performance.. but then again I want to make Roger happy and see ‘0’ next to all errors and warnings! J

Many thanks in advance!

Lee

[alsvik]

I worry too. And therefore I fix pages, sorted by page authority. I calculate on reaching 0 some day in 2017 ... Yes, you should fix these, but you need to prioritise your errors and warnings. Since google is my biggest concern, I start by fixing the ones GWT show me - and then I focus on Mozbot errors and warnings ....

[Webpresence]

I'll buy you a beer when you do Alsvik! How are you fixing the problem if you don't mind me asking?

[alsvik]

Rel=canonical for duplicate entries to the same pages. You could, if possible on your server, add no follow, noindex to all but one active URL for the same page - or use redirects ...

[Webpresence]

Appreciate that Alsvik, thought as much.

Still not sure whether I should be worrying about it too much though! Anyone else got any input?

[Dr-Pete]

I'm seeing a lot of duplicates in your forum pages - I think the issue is that any attempts to click into the forum go to the login page, but the URL stays the same. You may want to block those from crawlers somehow (META NOINDEX, for example), since Google can't log into member areas.

They don't seem to be currently in the Google index, but there is potential to dilute your site's ranking ability and for Google to think that your content is "thin". I do think it's a problem you should address.

[Webpresence]

Many thanks Pete, will see what we can do and take action. Appreciate the advice