Duplicate Page Content Issues Reported in Moz Crawl Report

[TomKing]

Hi all,

We have a lot of 'Duplicate Page Content' issues being reported on the Moz Crawl Report and I am trying to 'get to the bottom' of why they are deemed as errors...

This page; http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com/about-us/job-opportunities/ has (admittedly) very little content and is duplicated with;

http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com/cruise-deals/cruise-line-deals/explorer-of-the-seas-2015/

This page is basically an image and has just a couple of lines of static content.

Also duplicated with;

http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com/cruise-lines/costa-cruises/costa-voyager/

This page relates to a single cruise ship and again has minimal content...

Also duplicated with;

http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com/faq/packing/

This is an FAQ page again with only a few lines of content...

Also duplicated with;

http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com/cruise-deals/cruise-line-deals/exclusive-canada-&-alaska-cruisetour/

Another page that just features an image and NO content...

Also duplicated with;

http://www.bolsovercruiseclub.com/cruise-deals/cruise-line-deals/free-upgrades-on-cunard-2014-&-2015/?page_number=6

A cruise deals page that has a little bit of static content and a lot of dynamic content (which I suspect isn't crawled)

So my question is, is the duplicate content issued caused by the fact that each page has 'thin' or no content?

If that is the case then I assume the simple fix is to increase add \ increase the content?

I realise that I may have answered my own question but my brain is 'pickled' at the moment and so I guess I am just seeking assurances!

Thanks

Andy

[dan.lecocq]

There's a pretty rich discussion of how our near-duplicate detection works on this thread, but the short answer is 'yes.' The more unique content you have on a page, the less likely it is to be identified as a duplicate.

Our duplicate detection for campaign crawl does not strip out headers, footers, sidebars, etc., and so if the unique content of the page is very small, the common elements will dominate our consideration of two pages as duplicates.