Error in Duplicate Content Being Reported - Pages Aren't Actually Duplicates

[M_D_Golden_Peak]

The recent crawl of one of our sites revealed a high number of duplicate content issues. However, when I viewed the report for pages with duplicate content I noticed almost all of them are not duplicates.

For example, these two pages are marked as dupes:
https://www.writersstore.com/publishers/hollywood-creative-directory
https://www.writersstore.com/authors/g-miki-hayden

These are thin as far as content goes but definitely not duplicates. Any recommendations or ways to adjust the settings so that these false positives aren't clogging up our site crawl report?

[LoganRay]

Hi,

Moz is reporting these as duplicates because more than 90% of the source code is a match. The body content doesn't have enough differentiation to qualify them as unique pages.

Even if you could, you don't want to tell Moz to ignore things like this, because these types of duplications (or near dupes) are exactly why you're paying for Moz Being notified of issues like this gives you items to take action on and improve your overall site visibility.

[M_D_Golden_Peak]

The threshold definitely makes sense for why they are appearing, thank you for the great explanation.

[LoganRay]

Glad to help!