Not sure if I need to be concerned with duplicate content plus too many links
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Someone else supports this site in terms of making changes so I want to make sure that I know what I am talking about before I speak to them about changes.
We seem to have a lot of duplicate content and duplicate titles.
This is an example http://www.commonwealthcontractors.com/tag/big-data-scientists/ of a duplicate. Do I need to get things changed?
The other problem that crops up on reports is too many on page links. I am going to get shot of the block of tags but need to keep the news. Is there much else I can do?
Many thanks.
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Thank you Robert for your advice.
Much appreciated.
Niamh
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Your welcome Niamh.
David
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David
I appreciate you taking the time for my query. It is really helpful and I will get it sorted.
Many thanks
Niamh
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Niamh
With the url above, there is some duplicate content on the site and given the blog type it is I am not sure that it is helpful or a problem. I would suggest you nofollow the archives due to the way they are scrolling and showing as separate pages over and over.
As to the internal linking, from what I see there are not a ton of internal links here. Typically, you here keep it under 100 or keep it under 200. To me, if you have over 100 the page is a bit busy. You have less than 100 on the homepage and I do not think you have a real issue there.
Hope this helps,
Robert -
Simply put imagine your site is a book, a user comes along and finds the book has two chapter ones with the same title and the same page content - what value is that to the reader? None
Search engines are all about search quality and content, if they are seeing duplicate titles, descriptions and content how are they going to know what content on your pages is relevant to the user and delivers value to the users need.
I would make it a best practice for your business to ensure site content is rich, valuable and not duplicated across your sites domain. Also make sure descriptions and titles are short but descriptive. Maybe you can get your site's content manager to use great little tools like SEOMofo for this - http://www.seomofo.com/snippet-optimizer.html
Also get them looking at using schema.org and develop rich snippets for your page metadata.
Others can maybe come back with a better answer on that one - (read Robert's comments below regarding link quantities).
David
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