Duplicate Page and Title Issues

[Netrepid]

Yeh, the weird thing I am noticing is that the canonical tags are already present on this domain, and it's not picking up ALL of the pages with canonical as duplicates.

I'm not really sure what's going on, but when in doubt, I always Google the following query:

site:domain intext:block of text unique to that page

If there is a duplicate content issue, Google should tell you that by showing more than one result. If it shows only one, then Google is reading your code right.

I know we all love Moz and want them to show we have no errors on our sites, but at the end of the day... don't we really want Google to find no issues with our sites, not Moz?

[Netrepid]

Hey Monica... canonical tagging can be used for a lot more than just 'www' or non-www:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

[MonicaOConnor]

I would remove the domain name when you use the query.

moz keyword research in the united states best practice gets a much different SERP than keyword research in the united states best practice.

If you are trying to get a pure SERP result than you shouldn't use your domain name. That will tell you if there are any other search results in the web. If you want to find duplicate content on your site use copyscape.com or go to GWT and look for internal duplicate content.

Again, not only copy creates a duplicate content message. It is having an off html to text ratio, repetitive links in the HTML with not enough copy to balance it out. If Moz is reading a duplicate content error, and the number is increasing week to week I wouldn't discredit the finding simply because you don't understand why the error is occurring. The canonical tag won't prevent two different URLs from showing duplicate content. If you want to do that, no follow one of the URLs. That isn't best practice though, best practice is to fix the copy.

[Essential-Pest]

The problem is, our content is unique to each page and post. Yet they still have been coming up duplicated. I'll have to try Netrepid's google searching suggestion to double check these.

[MonicaOConnor]

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[MonicaOConnor]

They have different purposes, but all relating to preventing the same page from showing duplicate content because of the different ways a URL can be written. There is nothing on this page to show that using a canonical tag can take two different pages and remove the similar content. The purpose of the canonical tag is to set the preferred URL for one page.

[ChiarynMiranda]

Hey There!

I responded to your support request with more information on how we view canonicals. I hope it was helpful!

If you can send me examples of pages that you believe are being counted incorrectly, that will help me determine if there is an issue with the crawl or if the pages correctly fall into how we determine duplicates based on the canonical tags.

I look forward to hearing back from you there soon!

Chiaryn
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[ChiarynMiranda]

Hi there!

I took a look at your campaign and it seems that we crawled a lot more page of the site this week in general than we did the previous week. Two weeks ago, we crawled about 500 pages and this week the crawl jumped up to 2800. So it isn't that there are more duplicate pages on your site now, it is just that we are able to crawl more pages now than we were before, which led to us finding even more duplicate pages that had not been reported before.

As for why we are crawling so many more pages, it could be for a few reasons. If you made changes to the links on your site, the page hierarchy of the site, or if you remove noindex tags or updated the robots.txt file for the site, those things could all affect how we are able to crawl the site.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if I can help you with anything else.

Chiaryn
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[Essential-Pest]

Thank you for your help!

[ChiarynMiranda]

Always glad to help!

[Brooke80]

I am being told I have hundreds of duplicate titles and content on my site. It's not possible. Not only do I only have 120ish posts on my site and they all have different titles, but google console shows me that no on on the web is claiming my posts as theirs (ie they are not saying they are the originals, etc.) So what the heck is the issue? Why am I being told that posts that are NOT duplicate of anything are duplicate content and that I have a bunch of duplicate titles when NONE OF MY titles are duplicates of any other title?????????

And, how can I have 400 pieces of duplicate content when I only have 120 blog posts??

Please someone help me with this