Possible duplicate content issues on same page with urls to multiple tabs?

[atulgoyal]

Hello everyone!

I'm first time here, and glad to be part of Moz community!

Jumping right into the question I have.

For a type of pages we have on our website, there are multiple tabs on each page. To give an example, let's say a page is for the information about a place called "Ladakh".

Now the various urls that the page is accessible from, can take the form of:

• mywanderlust.in/place/ladakh/
• mywanderlust.in/place/ladakh/photos/
• mywanderlust.in/place/ladakh/places-to-visit/

and so on.

To keep the UX smooth when the user switches from one tab to another, we load everything in advance with AJAX but it remains hidden till the user switches to the required tab.

Now since the content is actually there in the html, does Google count it as duplicate content? I'm afraid this might be the case as when I Google for a text that's visible only on one of the tabs, I still see all tabs in Google results. I also see internal links on GSC to say a page mywanderlust.in/questions which is only supposed to be linked from one tab, but GSC telling internal links to this page (mywanderlust.in/questions) from all those 3 tabs.

Also, Moz Pro crawl reports informed me about duplicate content issues, although surprisingly it says the issue exists only on a small fraction of our indexable pages.

Is it hurting our SEO?

Any suggestions on how we could handle the url structure better to make it optimal for indexing.

FWIW, we're using a fully responsive design with the displayed content being exactly same for both desktop and mobile web.

Thanks a ton in advance!