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    • danatanseo
      danatanseo last edited by

      I am seeing “Duplicate Page Content” coming up in our
      reports on SEOMOZ.org

      Here’s an example:

      http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/product/williams-sound-ppa-r35-e

      http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/product/aphex-230-master-voice-channel-processor

      http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/product/AT-AE4100.prod

      These three pages are for completely unrelated products.
      They are returning “200” status codes, but are being identified as having
      duplicate page content. It appears these are all going to the home page, but it’s
      an odd version of the home page because there’s no title. I would understand if these pages 301-redirected to the home page if they were obsolete products, but it's not a 301-redirect. The referring page is
      listed as: http://www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/category/cd-duplicators

      None of the 3 links in question appear anywhere on that page. It's puzzling. We have 132 of these. Can anyone help me figure out
      why this is happening and how best to fix it?  Thanks!

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      • SEODinosaur
        SEODinosaur last edited by

        If you copy and paste the text into google you will find that:

        <cite>www.ccisolutions.com/StoreFront/category/cd-duplicators</cite>andwww.ccisound.com/StoreFront/category/cd-duplicators have the same exact content on them.

        This is duplicate content.

        if you paste this line of text into google: "When it comes to Acoustics, Sound, Video and Lighting Systems for Church, Presentation & Entertainment Venues expectations are always high and success is never negotiable. That's why prominent venues have turned to CCI Solutions for creative answers to their complex challenges."

        You will find several URLs with the same content.

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        • irvingw
          irvingw last edited by

          He is correct. those two URLs in your post are duplicate

          decide on the best url to represent and canonical the dupe pages to that URL and your issue should be fixed. 132 pages should take you a few hours probably.

          Also your title tag dynamic insertion is broken and you are missing meta descriptions:

            <title>CCI Solutions - <%=title%>title>  <META name="<a class="attribute-value">description</a>" content=""> 
          
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          • danatanseo
            danatanseo @SEODinosaur last edited by

            Thanks Donnie. This answers part of my question. But I am still wondering about three different product pages being diverted somehow to this odd version of the homepage. How could this be accomplished from a technical standpoint without doing a 301-redirect?

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            • SEODinosaur
              SEODinosaur @danatanseo last edited by

              As Irvine Weiss is mentioning the way to do it is to pick your best page and do a canonical tag directing to it. here is a great read:http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

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