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Our Google Webmaster Tools reports 18 duplicate page titles. Mox crawl reported 931. ????

Thomas; Thank you for looking at this issue. You are correct that each page title is the same.

A PHP based "Review" module creates a form allowing folks to enter their review and then assigns a page address. We have no direct ability of assigning page titles for reviews.

Our page http://www.audiobooksonline.com/Cell_Stephen_King_unabridged_compact_discs.html has ONLY one review however the MOZ crawl is picking up fifteen different page addresses. Evidently the Review module is creating all these page addresses.

Any idea if these multiple product review pages are hurting our SERPs?

Our most recent MOZ crawl campaign is reporting 931 duplicate page title errors, most of which are "Product Review" pages like the following. Although there is only one review on this page, http://www.audiobooksonline.com/Cell_Stephen_King_unabridged_compact_discs.html, MOZ is reporting 15 duplicate page title, four of which I present below.

http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/full/0743554337/0/name/desc
http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/full/0743554337/0/rating/asc
http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/full/0743554337/0/rating/desc
http://www.audiobooksonline.com/reviews/review.php/full/0743554337/0/state/asc

Why is MOZ reporting these "pages" as duplicate page title errors?

Are these errors hurting our SEO?

How to fix?

Do Search Engine Spiders Read Commented Out Content?

Is commented out content detrimental?

Why not keep leave the old page alive in the hopes that some will click on their links? Use a 304 redirect to your new site.

We have hundreds of audiobook titles that have gone out-of-publication. For those who may come upon the original page while searching the web and click on the link we use a 304 redirect to this common page: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/out-of-publication-audio-books-book-audiobook-audiobooks.html

Matt, Chris; Thank you for your comments.

Certainly I don't want to over include keywords into any of our pages.

The On-Page Grader report I received showing 15 uses of the keyword phrase made no mention that I was close to or had exceeded recommended usage. I would think that the On-Page Grader report would let me know if I was over using a keyword phrase. Correct?

Is there such a keyword use recommendation?

I don't see the "Factors Overview" box that Matt refers to.

I see that On-Page Grader reports include a numerical number such as the following:

Keyword Usage for audio book gift certificates = 15

I improved this page (http://www.audiobooksonline.com/audio-book-audiobook-gift-certificates.html) from 3 to 15 today.

What is the maximum "grade" possible?

We have 1000s of audio book titles at our Web store. Google's Panda de-valued our site some time ago because, I believe, of duplicate content. We get our descriptions from the publishers which means a good
deal of our description pages are the same as the publishers = duplicate  content according to Google.

Although re-writing each description of the products we offer is a daunting, almost impossible task, I am thinking of re-writing publishers' descriptions using The Best Spinner software which allows me to replace some of the publishers' words with synonyms.

I have re-written one audio book title's description resulting in 8% unique content from the original in 520 words.

I did a CopyScape Check and it reported "65 duplicates." CopyScape appears to be reporting duplicates of words and phrases within sentences and paragraphs. I see very little duplicate content of full sentences
or paragraphs.

Does anyone know whether Google's duplicate content algorithm is the same or similar to CopyScape's?

How much of an audio book's description would I have to change to stay away from CopyScape's duplicate content algorithm?

How much of an audio book's description would I have to change to stay away from Google's duplicate content algorithm?

Which social media plugin does Moz use?

Google WMT reports more than 198,000 backlinks to our site (www.audiobooksonline.com) from http://dilandau.eu/?

We have never been notified by Google of any penalty, malware notification... but continue to struggle to get our page 1 Google ranking back since Panda.

Could these backlinks be hurting our Google ranking?

Should I implement a disavow rule for http://dilandau.eu/?

We sell 1000s of audiobooks and get our cover images and descriptions from the publisher’s sites. When I download a cover image such as this one (http://www.audiobooksonline.com/media/Alex-Cross-Run-James-Patterson.jpg)
I always rename and re-size it before installing at our Web store. Would this process result in any publisher’s metadata in the image we use at our Web store and/or anything else Google would not like?
Is there an online utility that would allow me to see metadata in our images?

Google's first Panda de-valued our Web store, www.audiobooksonline.com, and our traffic went from 2500 - 3000 (mostly organic referrals) per month to 800 - 1000. Google's under-valuing of our Web store continued to reduce our traffic to 400-500 for the past few months. From 4/5/2013 to 4/6/2013 our traffic dropped 50% more, because (I believe) of Google's "exact domain match" algorithm implementation. We were, even after Panda and up to 4/5/2013 getting a significant amount of organic traffic for search terms such as "audiobooks online," "audio books online," and "online audiobooks." We no longer get traffic for these generic keywords.

What I don't understand is why a UK company, www.audiobooksonline.co.uk/, with a very similar domain name, ranks #5 for "audio books online" and #4 for "audiobooks online" while we've almost disappeared from Google rankings.

By any measurement I am aware of, our site should rank higher than audiobooksonline.co.uk. Market Samurai reports for "audio books online" and "audiobooks online" shows that our Web store is significantly "stronger" than audiobooksonline.co.uk but they show up on Google's first page and we are down several pages.

I also checked a few titles on audiobooksonline.co.uk and confirmed they are using the same publisher descriptions we and many other online book / audiobook merchants do = duplicate content.

We have never received notice that our Web store was being penalized.

Why would audiobooksonline.co.uk rank so much higher than audiobooksonline.com?

Does Google treat non-USA sites different than USA sites?

Good question. The canonical tag may be part of our solution.

I am also planning on having a "main" product with the description and any variations (abridged, unabridged, CD, MP3 CD) as subproducts which would use the main products' description. I.E. There would only be one product page with the description, not multiple. This will still result in our main products' page having the same description as the publisher. We have 1000s of audio products. Paying someone or doing it ourselves to create enough unique content on these pages would be prohibitive. Some high ranking competitors of ours have the same description as the publisher so Google must be taking something else into consideration to value them much higher than us.

When SEOmoz identifies pages at our Web store with duplicate content is SEOmoz saying one of both of the following:

1. More than one page at our Web store has the same content.

2. One or more pages at our Web store has the same content as another page on the Web.

Our latest SEOmoz crawl reports 1138 instances of "duplicate page content."

I have long been aware that our duplicate page content is likely a major reason Google has de-valued our Web store.

Our duplicate page content is the result of the following:

1. We sell audio books and use the publisher's description (narrative) of the title. Google is likely recognizing the publisher as the owner / author of the description and our description as duplicate content.

2. Many audio book titles are published in more than one format (abridged, unabridged CD, and/or unabridged MP3) by the same publisher so the basic description on our site would be the same at our Web store for each format = more duplicate content at our Web store.

Here's are two examples (one abridged, one unabridged) of one title at our Web store.

Kill Shot - abridged

Kill Shot - unabridged

How much would the body content of one of the above pages have to change so that a SEOmoz crawl does NOT say the content is duplicate?

I want to make sure that Google is indexing all of our pages we want them to. I.E. That all of the NOT indexed URLs are valid.

Liz; Perhaps my post was unclear or I am misunderstanding your answer.

I want to find out the specific URLs that Google says it isn't indexing because of our Robots.txt file.

Google Webmaster Tools says we have 17K out of 34K URLs that are blocked by our Robots.txt file.

How can I see the URLs that are being blocked?

Here's our Robots.txt file.

User-agent: * Disallow: /swish.cgi Disallow: /demo Disallow: /reviews/review.php/new/ Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/order.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/productsearch.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/billing.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/inv.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/new_options.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/registration.cgi Disallow: /cgi-audiobooksonline/sb/tellfriend.cgi Disallow: /*?gdftrk

Sitemap: http://www.audiobooksonline.com/google-sitemap.xml