Error on duplicated content, but when checking shouldn't been possible
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Dear all,
Every week I look at the different crawl reports for our website, since the start of my SeoMoz membership the Errors for duplicated content and duplicated Title is rising. But if I take out the .csv file and look in more detail, and select a pages which is marked as duplicated content, a canonical is actually existing on this page. So it shouldn't be an warning, I have no idea what the issue could be.
For example pagesare marked as duplicated content,
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| http://www.zylom.com/es/descargar-juegos/3-en-raya/?sortby=2 |
| http://www.zylom.com/es/descargar-juegos/3-en-raya/?startnumber=60&sortby=2 |
| http://www.zylom.com/es/descargar-juegos/3-en-raya/?startnumber=80&sortby=2 |the parameters after '?' (question mark) are necessary for our internal system. To overcome duplicated content we coded that a canonical tag onis placed on every page with parameters and the main page is
http://www.zylom.com/es/descargar-juegos/3-en-raya/
but it doesn't seem to work, because my error warnings are still rising.
Please advice me
Kind regards,
Ms Letty van Eembergen
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The SeoMoz crawl doesn't actually take into account your canonical tags at the moment but it is something they are looking into, so I wouldn't worry you are not the first to report this...
Have a look at this for peace of mind
http://www.seomoz.org/q/canonical-tag-and-duplicate-content-report
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HI Matt, thank you for pointing me in the right direction, will keep an eye on this update about new features.