Duplicate Page Content

[carlsutherland]

Hello,

After crawling our site Moz is detecting high priority duplicate page content for our product and article listing pages,

For example  http://store.bmiresearch.com/bangladesh/power and http://store.bmiresearch.com/newzealand/power are being listed as duplicate pages although they have seperate URLs, page titles and H1 tags. They have the same product listed but I would have thought the differentiation in other areas would be sufficient for these to not be deemed as duplicate pages.

Is it likely this issue will be impacting on our search rankings? If so are there any recommendations as to how this issue can be overcome.

Thanks

[killthebillion]

Because your both pages have exactly same description, it's likely to show duplicate content issue.

It will work against your SEO & it may impact your search engine rankings as well, You should either write fresh description for every page, not just change country & keep the description same.

[EGOL]

Google has been killing cookie-cutter pages (and websites) like these for at least ten years.  The pages might get indexed but Google will drop them within a short time.

Today, the Panda algo will also kill any website with lots of pages like these.

If you want to sell similar products like these, every page on your website must be written to be unique and substantive.  Any shortcuts will ruin your chances for success.  In addition to Google's problems with these pages, the potential buyer does not get nearly enough information to spend $x,xxx.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Carl,

Am I right in assuming that you have http://store.bmiresearch.com/newzealand/power & http://store.bmiresearch.com/bangladesh/power to try and satisfy results in those countries?

If you want to avoid duplication issues, you need to be implementing an international SEO strategy and make use of HFREFLANG.

Here are a few resources that I would suggest you have a read though.

• MOZ - Learn International SEO
• MOZ - International SEO Checklist
• Google - Using HREFLANG

However, don't worry if after this is done that they are picked up as duplication because that will just be MOZ notifying you of the pages rather than actually saying it's an issue.

I hope these help

-Andy

[carlsutherland]

Thanks for the replies!

That's correct - we have listings to suit the needs of our campaigns for our various target audiences. As we generate reports for over 200 countries across 24 sectors this can be quite vast. The issue Moz has highlighted are on our listings/filter pages rather than our product description pages.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

If the pages don't fall within the international element of the site, or aren't covered by HREFLANG, then look at the pages that are being caught as duplication. Are they required pages? Are they there just as filler content / doorway pages? Could the pages be noindexed? Is there an opportunity to set a canonical for them to avoid duplication?

-Andy