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I couldn't disagree more. I think you need to look beyond a few things and realize what you have to use.

If keywords ranking is incorrect, are you sure you're checking against the correct country?

Yes, SEOmoz can't crawl as well as some dedicated tools and it can sometimes be a little outdated. However, you have to realize that it's still great to have it.

From OSE, Followerwonk, keyword difficulty checking, on-page optimization, discounted services, this community etc...I think $99 really is very little.

Seems to be working fine now Josh. I still would check issues with your host.

I was able to crawl 193 pages with ScreamingFrog. I don't see reason why you're encountering problems  with it setup in your Moz account unless it's setup incorrectly.

Hi Josh, I tried crawling your website with ScreamingFrog and received a connection error. I can't even get your site to load at the moment. Are you sure it's not largely a server issue?

Hi Christian,

That's a really good question - Can anyone shed any light on this one?

Personally I would have made the URL you mentioned be the canonical one.

But seeing I'm here asking for advice on it, maybe someone else would be better placed to help.

Thanks Marcus - Agreed

Once URL structure has been improved, I will look into ensuring that specific property pages have canonical URLs and all relevant categories are appropriate setup as well.

Quite a bit of work to do but it should be worth it in the long term for the business.

Hi Marcus,

Just problems with the Moz tools.

We haven't been affected at all by any algorithm changes so far.

I still think it would be best to follow best practice going forward. I've just began work on this site and want to get to the root of any underlying problems.

Cheers,

Mark

Marcus, thank you for giving such clear examples to me. It's a great help.

I'm a little bit embarrassed by the fact that it was causing such confusion up until now but it's clear to me now what needs to be changed.

With SEOMoz Campaign setup for the site, we have been receiving many duplicate content errors.

Hopefully the use of correct canonical URLs should help to eliminate many of the problems we have been having.

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the advice

Optimization of the URL structure is certainly something which I'm focusing on at the moment.

Taking on-board what you have mentioned, with the URL structure replaced, I presume that similar canonicals would need to be setup on each property listing to avoid duplicate content?

Do you think it's an issue which I should look into for other areas of the site as well?

Apologies for my questions. As you can guess, I'm trying to get to the root of any issues we're having with duplicate content.

Many thanks,

Mark

Hi guys,

To be honest, it's a little bit embarrassing to throw out this question but it's one of the weakest points of knowledge at the moment for me.

I've tried to get a grasp of canonical URLs and what it all means. From my understanding, it's informing Google which page to take into consideration when there's the possibility for duplicate content. Right?

However, with the site I'm working on I'm not sure if it would be worth putting site-wide and the impact it would have.

Site I'm working on - http://bit.ly/N7eew7

With the nature of the site, there would be a lot of duplicated content as there's the possibility that several properties listed could have a similar address due to being in the same building etc.

From what I can see, no canonical URL was setup on the homepage.

The other variations of the homepage URL are 301 redirecting to thee http:/www. version.

Can someone explain it all to me in simple terms? Honestly believe that I'm getting more confused by the minute.

Thanks guys for your patience

Agree with Screaming Frog. It's more comprehensive than **Xenu's Link Sleuth. **

It costs £99 for a year but totally worth it.

I had a few issues with Xenu taking too long to compile a report or simply crashing.

Yeah - I would suggest a more optimized page title. You have 'Days Inn' duplicated twice.

Hi Jason,

This topic has been covered before with some great view points on this

http://www.seomoz.org/q/can-pdf-be-seen-as-duplicate-content-if-so-how-to-prevent-it

I hope you don't mind me directing you to this topic!

Hope it helps,

Mark