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  • RyanRhodes
    RyanRhodes last edited by Aug 19, 2015, 5:30 PM

    I am asking this because I have a couple of site audit tools that I use to crawl a site I work on every week and they are showing duplicate content issues (which I know there is a lot on this site) but some of what is flagged as duplicate content makes no sense.

    For example, the following URL's were grouped together as duplicate content:

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    https://www.firefold.com/contact-us

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    https://www.firefold.com/gabe

    | https://www.firefold.com/sale |

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    How are these pages duplicate content? I am confused on what site audit tools are considering duplicate content.

    Just FYI, this is data from Moz crawl diagnostics but SEMrush site auditor is giving me the same type of data.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Ryan

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    • RyanRhodes
      RyanRhodes last edited by Aug 19, 2015, 7:03 PM Aug 19, 2015, 7:03 PM

      Yea I just started working on this site. I haven't used Moz Analytics much so just wanting to see how their crawler crawls pages.

      And yes I agree, there are a lot of BIG BIG BIG issues with this site.

      I got a large workload over the next few months haha.

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      • Lumina
        Lumina @DavidLee last edited by Aug 19, 2015, 6:57 PM Aug 19, 2015, 6:57 PM

        I would add that there's is no text on any of those three pages - any "text" one would see there is actually just embedded in an image - which is a huge issue for a number of reasons:

        1. Search engines see that there's no text - a big no-no.
        2. You're getting practically no SEO value from the content that would be there, even if there isn't much.
        3. It's heavier this way - which makes load times slower.

        I want to clarify that there are many, bigger issues with these pages - but as your question concerns only duplicate content, I'll leave all of that out for the time being. To summarize, Google, Yahoo, and Bing are just seeing some duplicate banners, sidebars, etc. and then some images in the body of your pages. Hence, duplicate content.

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        • RyanRhodes
          RyanRhodes @DavidLee last edited by Aug 19, 2015, 6:56 PM Aug 19, 2015, 6:56 PM

          Thanks for that information.

          It makes sense looking at the data and pages from that perspective.

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          • DavidLee
            DavidLee last edited by Sep 2, 2015, 9:06 AM Aug 19, 2015, 6:14 PM

            Hi Ryan!

            Our crawler will flag pages that have at least 90% similarity in the entire source code of the site so not just the body.

            The way you want to interpret the report is the contact-us page has 35 duplicates, so "gabe" and "sale" are not dupes of each other in this section but are only each a duplicate of "contact-us". Those URLs might appear with their own duplicates of the same pages further down in the report.

            While on the front end the pages do not appear to be similar. The issue is likely with the amount of javascript code on those pages.

            Our crawler cannot read javascript so we are likely only able to see the template of the page. Other search tools are probably seeing the same thing as it returns 79% similarity  using this tool: http://www.freebulkseotools.com/similar-page-checker-tool.php

            I can't provide much insight from a dev perspective but hope this helps!

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