How can I resolve a duplicate page issue?

[lindsayjhopkins]

I have (an attached) report that shows duplicate content for a blog page and I'm not sure how to resolve the issue.

The blog/website is hosted on wordpress.org, maybe it's something to do with having to add categories or tags - can anyone help please?

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[Mark_Jay_Apsey_Jr.]

Lindsay-

On your attachment I didnt see where there was duplicate content....

There are several ways you can fix it, depending on what the issue is.

The most common issue we see is the title and/or meta tag description. Alot of times with wordpress and some of the seo plug ins, these are auto filled in and it could be filled in with exactly the same information.

Another thing we see is it is the same content. We see people that manage a blog and will double post the same article by accident. make sure it isnt that.

Another thing is it could be someone that posted the blog in multiple blogs or someone "scraped" the blog and published it somewhere else and it is being picked up by google as duplicate content.

Hope this helps. If so, let us know...

Mark

[GerryWeitz]

I am having my own problems with Wordpress tags, categories, authors and archiving generating duplicate content errors.  Google is likely seeing the same page through the multiple lenses of tags, categories, authors and archives and seeing the same content.

I've been spending a great deal of time reducing tags and categories, which reduced duplicate content but also brought up a lot of new 404 errors to deal with.  I have also been adding unique descriptions and titles for all my tags and categories conforming to Google title and description requirements.

I'm not done by far but I am closer to the finish line.

[lindsayjhopkins]

Hi Mark,

Nope none of the above - and what you see is exactly the report I get from SEO Moz. And like you I can't identify where the duplicate content is.

Short of deleting the blog page (and consequently the multiple URL's) I'm not sure what else to do?