Duplicate page content
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The MOZ crawler identifies pages as duplicate content which are not the same.
The pages http://www.aignerart.com/abstracts-oil-painting/cicli-colora.html and http://www.aignerart.com/abstracts-oil-painting/murs-de-la-ville.html are marked duplicate but they are different paintings. Any ideas? -
Thanks for your quick responses. I agree we should differentiate the product pages more
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duplicate content can't hurt you in the traditional penalty form. However, it can prevent pages from ranking because Google will only display one page when there are two that look the same. Here is a video from Matt Cutts at Google on how exactly they handle duplicate content.
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I think SEOs get used to seeing duplicate content issues caused by the same page having various URLs (parameters, www, filters, slashes, etc), so it almost catches us off guard when we see pages flagged for having the same copy (real / true duplicate content!). At one point, I believe Matt Cutts shared that internal dup content will not hurt your site, but I would work to update all pages to have unique copy. It looks like all of your product pages have the same boilerplate copy, so this may be a big undertaking but it'll be worth it both from an SEO & UX perspective - as you add more descriptive copy, these pages may begin to rank for new queries not previously captured & you'll be providing more value to the visitor.
Side note - I clicked around on a few pages & when I land on a product detail page, 4 gray boxes pop up (one saying Site Map). Something funky going on there.
Hope this helps!
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Hi there,
The copy is exactly the same - bar the product name - on both pages. Although it's a pain, it's better to have completely unique copy on each product page.
Hope this helps,
Lewis
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