Can't figure out why some of my pages are duplicate content

[INMCA]

Within the crawl diagnostics area I'm getting duplicate page content issues on several pages. I don't know why, would anyone be able to tell me how these links are duplicate so I can fix them?

http://www.sagenews.ca/Column.asp?id=3010

http://www.sagenews.ca/Column.asp?id=2808

http://www.sagenews.ca/Column.asp?id=2998

http://www.sagenews.ca/Column.asp?id=2837

http://www.sagenews.ca/Column.asp?id=2981

[KeriMorgret]

The short answer is that Google and Moz don't look at images. If you turn off your images, there's not too much different between those pages.

[BrianJGomez]

Obviously these are not duplicate pages but I think your pages are drawing the duplicate content flags because

1. You have the same h1 for each one (man vs. world) and
2. Your content other than your actual picture is all very similar (i.e. disclaimer)
3. You have no alt image tags so the crawler has no idea what sort of image it's looking at
4. Your URLS are very similar (I'd switch to a more SEO friendly URL structure if your CMS allows)

I would fix #1-3 for sure since those are pretty easy fixes and then see if that causes the notices to cease. If not, I would fix #4 as well. Long term, you are going to want to fix #4 regardless so you might as well bite the bullet.

[INMCA]

Thanks, I'll fix 1-3 and see what we can do about #4. That one will take a while longer if we're able to do it.

[KeriMorgret]

Actually, #4 doesn't impact the duplicate content checking for Moz.