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    • CRMI
      CRMI last edited by

      I am a weebly user and have a site (crmi-online.com) which has an RSS Feed of my current blog entries on my home page.  I am struggling with the following issues...

      Duplicate Content - Moz shows duplicate content for my blog articles.  Which are also housed here (http://www.crmi-online.com/news-and-press-releases).  Could having the feed on my site be causing this issue?

      Traffic- My Weebly stats show that the RSS Feed is my 2nd highest ranking page at 713 views per this month.  However when I compare it to the data in Moz my news feeds or the actual blog page are not one of my top ranking pages.  Can someone help to explain the difference?  Also, it appears that my site gets a lot of spam traffic and I wonder if removing the feed would help and give more accurate numbers.

      Is it necessary? - Is it necessary to have both the feed and the blog page?  I want to move to one of the new weebly responsive themes after having trouble with a current custom/non-supported template.  If I do that the feed will have to go since it jumbles the content in mobile view.  I am not sure of the need except for the aesthetics on the home page since I dont see any correlation to traffic to the actual article/blog itself.

      Thanks in advance for your help!

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      • danwebman
        danwebman last edited by

        Usually this is can be caused due to case sensitivity or Https and Http mix ups.

        Ensure that all URLS both naturally on the site and in the feeds are identical, try to ensure that each page has a unique URL on the site and classify this in a Canonical link at the top of each page.

        Use Screaming Frog to spider the site and look for duplicates as another way of finding the duplicates.

        Regards

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