Duplicate content issues - page content and store URLs

[speedbird1229]

Hi,

I'm experiencing some heavy duplicate content Crawl errors on Moz with www.redrockdecals.com and therefore I really need some help. It brings up different connections between products and I'm having a hard time figuring out what it means.

1. It is listing the same products as duplicate content but they have different URL endings. For example:http://www.redrockdecals.com/car-graphics/chevrolet-silverado?___store=nl&___from_store=us
   &
   http://www.redrockdecals.com/car-graphics/chevrolet-silverado?___store=d&___from_store=us

2. It seems like Moz considers the copy-pasted parts in the Full Description (scrolled a bit down on product pages) as Duplicate Content. For example the general text found on this page: http://www.redrockdecals.com/caution-tow-limited-turning-radius-decal

Or this page: http://www.redrockdecals.com/if-you-don-t-succeed-first-time-then-skydiving-isn-t-for-you-bumper-sticker

I am planning to write new and unique descriptions for all products but what do you suggest - should I either remove the long same descriptions or just shorten them perhaps so they don't outweigh the short but unique descriptions above? I've heard search engines understand that some parts of the page can be same on other pages but I wonder if in my case this has gone too deep...

Thanks so much!

[MonicaOConnor]

Are you using Canonical tags on any of these pages? If you aren't, you should, it will help the duplicate content issue somewhat.

If 1 product has 2 different URLs then it is technically 2 pages to the search engine. Canonical tags will help get rid of those errors as well.

If the content is copy and pasted it is duplicate content. If the content is thin then the html coding that is probably very similar on both pages is what the bots consider duplicate content because it is the only content. Your text to html ratio should be much greater. The engines don't need copy to be 100% identical in order to classify it as duplicate content. Those errors are important because it is telling you that the engines don't see those pages as relevant because they aren't uniquely valuable to the searchers.