Too many pages indexed in SEOMoz

[LaurieK13]

I am running a campaign for a client that has 86 pages via Google and SEmoz is up to almost 10K pages. I am really confused. Any ideas?

[john4math]

Have you looked at the errors in the campaign?  I would suspect you have some duplicate content issues.  For example, does your client serve the same page for the following instead of redirecting to the same URL?

• example.com
• example.com/
• example.com/index.php (or .html, or just /index)
• www.example.com
• www.example.com/
• www.example.com/index.php (or .html, or just /index)

There are many more that it could be finding.  Drill in to this campaign, and click the subtab for Crawl Diagnostics.  Then find the Duplicate Page Content error and drill into that.  It should give you an idea as to what's going on.

[KeriMorgret]

Do you know how many pages the client is supposed to have? If they have 100 or so pages, one guess would be that there's an issue with URL parameters creating a ton of duplicate content, or there's a calendar application that's causing endless pages.

As it's a client, I imagine you can't share the URL with us. If you're not seeing any messages in your campaign about duplicate content or other hints, I'd email help@seomoz.org and ask them to take a look at it.

[LaurieK13]

Thanks I did do this. It does look like duplicate url parameters.

[LaurieK13]

Thanks Keri.

It does look like duplicate url parameters.

[abbath]

I also recommend that you consult help@seomoz.org. you will have a professional, respond quickly and will not have to share theinfo of your client.