SEOMoz Question

[AkilarOffice]

Hi,

I have taken over SEO on  a real estate site with an internal blog. Unfortunately there are loads of duplicated pages and titles in the blog. It was suggested that all should be rel=canonical so not to show up. In my last crawl here though they still do. So question is if SEOMoz crawls and sees them is Google also seeing them?

Also would it be best to move the blog off site so this does not cause anymore damage and just link to it from the main site?

Thanks for your comments

[SEOAndy]

long story short, rel canonical isn't the tool for the job - manual work (to an extent) is.

titles and content want to be unique even if you have canonicals. if you miss use canonicals you can have other issue within your site and serps  so be careful. my advice is point blank remove the dupe content whether by manually changing content and titles.

[AkilarOffice]

HI Andy, Thanks for that. What if I just put the blog on it's own domain and just a link to it from the main site. I am not looking for traffic so to speak on the blog. There is a lot more to it to be honest just trying to isolate it from the individual site itself.

Thanks

[SEOAndy]

that could help but would just shift the issue elsewhere - but it's worth a try.

if you'd like a chat in a bit more of a private setting head to my profile and send me a message in private, or go through to the company site and get in touch that way.