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Why does SeoMoz tell me I have duplicate content issues and show me these two URLs?

mysite.com

mysite.com/

What does the slash matter and why is that considered duplicate content?

I've been scratching my head over this one for a while now and I can't seem to figure it out.

I own a website that is user-generated content. Users submit images to my sites of graphic resources (for designers) that they have created to share with our community.

I've been noticing over the past few months that I'm getting completely dominated in Google Images. I used to get a ton of traffic from Google Images, but now I can't find my images anywhere.

After diving into Analytics I found this: http://cl.ly/140L2d14040Q1R0W161e and realized sometime about a year ago my image traffic took a dive.

We've gone back through all the change logs and can't find where we made any changes to the site structure that could have caused this. We are stumped.

Does anyone know of any historical Google updates that could have caused this last year around the end of April 2010?

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated!

When I run a report on my competition I'm seeing their link show up in OSE's report under the "Linking Domains" tab, but when I put my site in there, it doesn't recognize my link from my twitter profile. Any ideas?

Thanks guys! This a huge help. I'll get it taken care of.

Hi All,

I've looking at my Crawl Diagnostics Summary and working on getting my site errors down as low as possible.

One thing I'm noticing is that in the "Other URLs" column I'm seeing a lot of 1s. When I click on the number, it is showing me the exact URL with an upper case category title.

For example, it appears like it's telling me that these two URLs are considered duplicate content:

http://mysite.com/Category

http://mysite.com/category

Is that right? Does google care about upper and lower case spelling?