Duplicate Content Problems

[mikecrib1]

Hi I am new to the seomoz community I have been browsing for a while now.

I put my new website into the seomoz dashboard and out of 250 crawls I have 120 errors! So the main problem is duplicate content. We are a website that finds free content sources for popular songs/artists. While seo is not our main focus for driving traffic I wanted to spend a little time to make sure our site is up to standards.  With that said you can see when two songs by an artist are loaded. http://viromusic.com/song/125642  & http://viromusic.com/song/5433265 seomoz is saying that it is duplicate content even though they are two completely different songs. I am not exactly sure what to do about this situation.

We will be adding more content to our site such as a blog, artist biographies and commenting maybe this will help? Although if someone was playing multiple bob marley songs the biography that is loaded will also be the same for both songs.

Also when a playlist is loaded http://viromusic.com/playlist/sldvjg on the larger playlists im getting an error for to many links on the page. (some of the playlists have over 100 songs) any suggestions?

Thanks in advance and any tips or suggestions for my new site would be greatly appreciated!

[josh-riley]

A few things - too many links on a page happens all the time. I know it's a message I get, but because of the way my site is built, it's the way it is. It looks like the way your menus and such are set up that it could be just part of what you have to accept about your design. It's not going to kill you - but unless you want to make deeper levels to your site so people have fewer links to click through at the main page, then that's how the "issue" will render itself. You are not alone in having this happen to you.

As for duplicate content, something to think about: your point of it being two different songs is how you as a person look at it and you need to look at it as a crawler. Most everything else on those two pages is the same, except for the song featured in the center and maybe some of the songs listed to the right. Even the page titles are similar. I'm taking a random stab, but that means only about 15% of the content between the two is different  - most noticeably the featured song. Again, this is part of the outcome of your site design; you aren't alone in having this problem. Either you need to redo your site design  or add more differentiated content (change the page titles, change what data feeds into the "more songs" section, etc.).

[mikecrib1]

Thanks for the reply! Well I guess ill try to find a good way to make the content different. Do you think that these pages will get deindexed? Or will they just not have a big possibility of ranking high?

[josh-riley]

It's not going to get them deindexed and it's unlikely it could be the root cause why they wouldn't rank high.

There's honestly not much content on each page, nor it is easy to tell what keywords you are targeting since they kind of cannibalize each other, and that makes it harder to rank well.