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    • TalkingSheep
      TalkingSheep last edited by

      I am getting a duplicate content error for urls for the "tags" or categories pages for my blog.

      These are some the URLs that SEOmoz is saying are errors, or duplicate pages.

      http://sacmarketingagency.com/blog/?Tag=Facebook

      http://sacmarketingagency.com/blog/?Tag=content+marketing

      http://sacmarketingagency.com/blog/?Tag=inbound+marketing

      As you can see, they are just the pages that are aggregating certain blog post based on how we tagged them with the appropriate category.

      Is this really a problem for our SEO, if so any suggestions on how to fix this?

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      • OlegKorneitchouk
        OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

        In general, you should either have the tag OR categories OR archives page indexed, the others noindexed. Having all 3 creates duplicate content issues (usually they have the same post content snippets in different order/page #s).

        If you choose not to noindex them, you should mod_rewrite those URLs to looks like.com sacma.com/blog/tag/inbound-marketing/. And the /blog/ page should have a canonical set to itself to avoid dupe content.

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