"Issue: Duplicate Page Content " in Crawl Diagnostics - but these pages are noindex

[mdoegel]

Hello guys,

our site is nearly perfect - according to SEOmoz campaign overview. But, it shows me 5200 Errors, more then 2500 Pages with Duplicate Content plus more then 2500 Duplicated Page Titles.

All these pages are sites to edit profiles. So I set them "noindex, follow" with meta robots. It works pretty good, these pages aren't indexed in the search engines.

But why the SEOmoz tools list them as errors? Is there a good reason for it? Or is this just a little bug with the toolset?

The URLs which are listet as duplicated are

http://www.rimondo.com/horse-edit/?id=1007 (edit the IDs to see more...)

http://www.rimondo.com/movie-edit/?id=10653 (edit the IDs to see more...)

The crawling picture is still running, so maybe the errors will be gone away in some time...?

Kind regards

[AaronWheeler]

Hey mdoegel,

You're right - we are still counting that page despite the tag. Sorry about that. We don't crawl it further, but it is included in the totals and analyzed for duplicate content. We are planning on removing pages blocked by robots.txt from the total, so perhaps we should also exclude those noindex pages from issue calculation as well. That's in the next couple of months, though... I'm not an expert SEO so I don't know if this would be helpful, but for now, maybe you can use canonicalization to keep those pages from being counted as duplicates?

I hope this helps! I'm really sorry for the inconvenience of these errors. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help. Also, please send me an email at help@seomoz.org with examples and such so our help team can try to fix the bug. Thanks!