Duplicate content - Which is the other duplicate page?

[rjchugh]

Hi

I just ran a campaign, and I got a duplicate content warning for some of my pages. When I go into the diagnostic report, I am unable to find the page detected by google as 'duplicate' to the main page. Unless I know which 2 pages are being detected as duplicate, it'll be really difficult to actually solve the problem.

Would be great to have any kind of help here.

Thanks in advance!

[crackingmedia]

Hi Ravijot

I assume you mean the diagnostic report in Moz and not anything you have seen in Google webmaster tools?

If the Moz report, you will see the column of pages it reports as duplicated. Alongside, you will see a number in the column which is titled "Other URLs". If you click the number, it will then show you the other URLs which are returning the duplicate page.

It's likely that these URLs are all pointing to the same page rather than you actually having duplicate pages.

Hopefully that will help you to find out what is wrong and fix it, but post back if you are still stuck.

Peter

[BarrelStrength]

Same issue for me. I have the pages ID'd that have duplicated content but can't find the URL's those pages share the same content with.

In my report I DO NOT have the column of pages it reports as duplicated or a column entitled "Other URLs".

The columns in my report for "Pages with Duplicate Page Content" is as follows:
URL / Page Authority / Linking Root Domains / External Link Count / Internal Link Count / Status Code

Is there another view of the data I'm missing? BTW I'm under Search > Crawl Diagnostics > and Analyze Pages with Duplicate Page Content

[JackieRae]

Hello!

In Moz Analytics, users should be able to download the csv to see the urls that have duplicate content. However, there is a bug that makes that column blank. Sorry about this! We realized that it somehow disappeared in those csv reports, and our Engineers are working to fix it. It should be fixed this week, and I'll update this forum when it's out!

Best,

Jackie | Product Planner

[rjchugh]

Thanks for your response Peter. As mentioned by Jackelyn below, the column shows up as blank for me. Looking forward to the bug getting fixed.

Thanks again!

[rjchugh]

Thanks Jackelyn. Look forward to this getting fixed.

[rjchugh]

On a related note, is it possible to figure out 'what' exactly is duplicate between any 2 pages. Moz shows a lot of pages on my website that have different content, as 'duplicate pages'. Is there any way to figure out what this duplicate content is?

Thanks in advance!

[crackingmedia]

Hi Ben

I have just been looking at this again and cab see that the report you were looking at was the duplicate page report from Moz Analytics rather than from Moz Pro.

The report in Moz Analytics is different and does not provide a link to view the duplicate pages on screen. However, having just downloaded the Crawl diagnostics export file in Moz Analytics it does now show the URL that was checked in column U of the spreadsheet and in column AF the duplicate page URL if one was found for the URL being checked. When there is more than one duplicate page found, the downloaded report has extra lines for each duplicate found for the checked URL.

Alternatively, you could switch to the Moz Pro interface and view the Duplicate Page Content report in that, which does give you a hyperlinked number (showing how many duplicate pages have been found for a URL) which if you click it you are shown the list of URLS of duplicated pages for that URL.

A screenshot of that is attached.

I hope that helps,

Peter

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[crackingmedia]

Hi Ravijot,

The only examples I have seen are those where the whole page is a duplicate caused by two URLs pointing to the same page.

You could though have two separate duplicate pages. The Moz report says that Duplicate Page Content is "Code and content similar or identical to code and content on other pages on your site". In the the case that the code and content is 'similar' I don't think it will tell you what is similar only the fact that the Moz crawler has found a large portion of a page that is identical and some different, thereby making the page 'similar'.

Maybe though a Moz support member could clarify my assumption on that.

Peter

[JackieRae]

You are correct. For Duplicate Page Content, we are looking for pages that have 95% or greater overlap, or similarity in the content and code. If you're looking for more info, our Help Team wrote a great article about how our crawler defines each crawl diagnostic. Feel free to check it out!

Jackie

[rjchugh]

Thanks a lot for the prompt response Jackie!

[rjchugh]

Thanks Peter! That makes sense.

[Mark_Inspired]

Hi Peter,

Could you detail exactly how to "switch to the Moz Pro interface?" Sure I'm missing something obvious but can't find a thing!

Thanks.

[crackingmedia]

Hi Mark

Yes, login to your account. By default the system currently logs you into Moz Pro.

At the top right there should be a light green button that says "Start using Moz Analytics". Click that and if you will be logged into it.

Yesterday, there was a link which made it possible to switch back to Moz Pro, but I cannot find it now, so it may be that the only way to get back to Moz Pro is logging out and in again.

I hope that helps,

Peter

[futurederm]

Trying to download the CSV for my campaign but it returns an empty page.

Kind of annoyed because Moz is not helping me identify the URLs with duplicate content. There's no column that Peter is referencing above and I can't download the CSV.

[KeriMorgret]

I'm not aware of an outstanding issue with downloading CSVs. Could you go to http://moz.com/help/contact and open a ticket so we can investigate? Thanks, and so sorry for the troubles!