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Hi there! Tawny from Moz's help team here. The best way to prevent our crawler from reporting duplicate content for pages you aren't concerned about and don't intend to change would be to block our crawler from these pages using the robots.txt file for the site. For example, it looks like most of the pages reported as duplicates include URL parameters, so you should be able to add a disallow directive for that parameter and any others to block our crawler from accessing them. It would look something like this: User-agent: Rogerbot Disallow: ?type etc., until you have blocked all of the parameters that may be causing these duplicate content errors. You can also use the wild card user-agent * in order to block all crawlers from those pages, if you prefer. Here is a great resource about the robots.txt file that might be helpful: https://moz.com/learn/seo/robotstxt I'd recommend checking your robots.txt file in this handy Robots Checker Tool once you make changes to avoid any nasty surprises. Let us know if we can help with anything else! Just drop us a line at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to get things straightened out for ya.

Thank you so much! I've actually gotten permission to talk about the school's themselves for the sake of trying to get some support on this, since this is such a tricky problem. To answer your questions: 2. So the URL for Penn State Law (pennstatelaw.psu.edu) is not showing up when you type in "penn state law". Only the subdomain that is advertising for both schools at law.psu.edu shows up and the school is listed underneath it, but its own domain name is not appearing. For our other school, the 'Dickinson law school', when their name is typed in their website at dickinsonlaw.psu.edu shows up and then the law.psu.edu site shows up. So everything is working perfectly, and as expected for that school. 3. Years ago, the subdomain law.psu.edu was active for the dickinson schools of law, until the split. Now law.psu.edu is advertising for both schools, and has a series of pages on it that talks about the 2 different choices, AND each school has their own site: pennstatelaw.psu.edu, and dickinsonlaw.psu.edu. The URL that speaks about both schools was set up years ago I think in order to help keep rankings high and start to drive value to the 2 schools websites, and the plan was for that to go down in rankings as the 2 new websites started to build their way up - but it looks like the law site has really held its own at the top of search results for a lot of keywords for the new school. (Probably because the school name is so broad and a keyword in itself) 4. These schools are completely different which is why this is such a huge problem. They have different accreditations and the education is slightly different between the 2 so they share the same website at that one subdomain but the addresses, phone numbers and everything else is different. 5. I've been going through the Moz Local a lot and haven't found any major inconsistencies. The right school is popping up with the correct phone number. I might still look into this to get it exactly the same across the web, but both of the school's listings are popping up with correct addresses & phone numbers. 6. So it is not being listed as a department of the university, but its own school and academic college that you can attend. Technically everything is under the university, but that is not how it is being listed or advertised. Thank you so much for your response and any other help you can provide. I really have been thinking that the law site providing info on both schools is causing a lot of the problem but I know its a risk to start messing around with that if I don't know what to expect. Hope this can help other universities with similar problems too! Thanks again!