Question about duplicate content in crawl reports

[danatanseo]

Okay, this one's a doozie:

My crawl report is listing all of these as separate URLs with identical duplicate content issues, even though they are all the home page and the one that is http://www.ccisolutions.com (the preferred URL)  has a canonical tag of rel= http://www.ccisolutions.com:

http://www.ccisolutions.com

http://ccisolutions.com

http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/IAFDispatcher?iafAction=showMain

I will add that OSE is recognizing that there is a 301-redirect on http://ccisolutions.com, but the duplicate content report doesn't seem to recognize the redirect.

Also, every single one of our 404-error pages (we have set up a custom 404 page) is being identified as having duplicate content. The duplicate content on all of them is identical.

Where do I even begin sorting this out? Any suggestions on how/why this is happening?

Thanks!

[CHADHARRIS]

Dana-

I was waiting for someone to step up and say something.  It is happening to us.  I was on a consultant call with Jason Dowdell related to another topic with our site and I brought this up.  We then did several different investigations regarding this and discovered there has to be a gilt.  We ran some quick analysis and discovered what I call- Bullshhhhht.

We think reviewed about 200 pages and discovered that not 1 single page had duplicate anything.

He told me to worry about other things- like real content created by humans.

Chad

[danatanseo]

Thanks very much Chad. Yes, I kinda thought the same thing, but it's good to hear from someone else. I think it's a perfect example of using common sense and "know-how" at the same time as using tools, and not to blindly trust all of the results the tools feed us. If something looks fishy, it probably is!

Sorry it took me so long to respond and mark this one as answered. I appreciate it!

Dana

[CHADHARRIS]

Well- I confirmed it when a crawl came back with 12,500 errors ( all from email a friend url ) which is a no crawl page.

Over the last 2 weeks we made sure our site was 100% with a revalidation again with W3C and came back 100% and google now is crawling us 2 to 3 times a week.

So- I think the crawl at Moz went out and drank a bit to many cold ones....

Have a good holiday.  
Chad