How do I fix 885 Duplicate Page Content Errors appearing in my Moz Report due to categories?
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Hi There,
I want to set up my Moz report to send directly to a client however there are currently 885 duplicate page content errors displaying on the report.
These are mostly caused by an item listed in multiple 'categories' and each category is a new pages/URL.
I guess my questions are:
1. Does Google see these as duplicate page content? Or does it understand the categories are there for navigation purposes.
2. How do I clear these off my Moz report so that the client doesn't panic that there are some major issues on the site
Thanks for your advice.
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Greetings Stacey,
If your site is built on WordPress, you can use the Yoast SEO plugin and set categories to "noindex". You can find this in the menu for "Titles &Metas" and then "Taxonomies" in the Yoast plugin. I did that recently for tags, categories and archives within a client's blog to remove duplicate content notices in my Moz reports.
That being said, it MAY have some impact on your position in the SERPs.
I hope that helps.
Best Regards,
Mark
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Hi,
Duplicates of this nature can only be fixed by adding canonical tags to one preferred version of that product. When you have multiple instances of the product throughout many categories, search engines aren't sure which to show, so they'll usually not show any of your results. For more on canonical tags, read this Moz article.
You cannot remove it from the Moz report, as that's part of its purpose - to show you instances of duplicate content.
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