Moz & Google Tag Manager

[moon-boots]

Does Moz take into account Google Tag Manager or will it keep flagging up duplicate content, etc?

[tawnycase]

Hi there! Tawny from Moz's Customer Support team here.

That's an excellent question! Our tool has a 90% tolerance for duplicate content, which means it will flag any content that has 90% of the same code between pages. This includes all the source code on the page and not just the viewable text, so often it's a matter of finding the best answer for the duplicate pages in question.

For instance, often with ecommerce sites, product pages will come up with duplicate content between two colors of the same item, and in that case it's good to use the canonical tag. https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization

If there are two versions of the site that exist - for instance, example.com/subfolder and www.example.com/subfolder - you can put in 301 redirects to the correct page: https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection.

If it's just two pages on different subjects but thin content, filling out that content with an extra paragraph or two can help.

There are more in-depth explanations of common answers to duplicate content on this page, if you're curious!: https://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content

​Moz's tools won't take Google Tag Manager into account - you could still see duplicate content errors pop up. Using canonicalization or redirection should help cut down on those errors, though!

[moon-boots]

Hello Tawny,

Thank you for the response. My problem is that I don't know how to assign Canonical tags to product pages in Opencart, and anytime I ask the question I get a vague response or a link to a post with little relevance to the question. Therefore my only option has been to use the Google Tag Manager or Robots.txt, which is all good and well for Google but if I'm going to pay for Moz I want it to be accurate.

Perhaps you can answer the question nobody else has answered?

[tawnycase]

I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Opencart, so I'm not sure how you'd assign canonical tags to product pages using that service.

Moz's tools will always report every crawl issue we find, so you'll need to find a solution that stops these notices coming up in the first place. Unfortunately, I'm not an SEO and I'm not sure what the best strategy would be for doing that. Sorry I can't be more help! Maybe one of our friendly and helpful Community members will be able to weigh in here.

[Vijay-Gaur]

Hi There,

Check if this helps http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?t=45677http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?t=45677

Thanks,

Vijay

[moon-boots]

Thanks Vijay, I did read this a few days ago and it wasn't helpful. All of the information was either not relevant to my situation or inconclusive.