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    • BetAmerica
      BetAmerica last edited by

      Just got the new crawl report, and I have a recurring issue that comes back around every month or so, which is that a bunch of pages are reported as duplicate content for themselves. Literally the same URL:

      http://awesomewidgetworld.com/promotions.shtml

      is reporting that

      http://awesomewidgetworld.com/promotions.shtml

      is both a duplicate title, and duplicate content.  Well, I would hope so! It's the same URL!

      Is this a crawl error? Is it a site error? Has anyone seen this before? Do I need to give more information?

      P.S. awesomewidgetworld is not the actual site name.

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      • matbennett
        matbennett last edited by

        That doesn't sound right at all.  I'd email help@seomoz.org with that one to be honest.

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        • BetAmerica
          BetAmerica @matbennett last edited by

          Did that, thanks! I'll report back what they told me so we can all learn.

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