Is canonical link enough?
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Hi SEOmozers!
I have a question.
SEOmoz analysis report me some duplicate that I thought I had fix.
I can give a concrete example.
This page:
http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/events/dec2011training-boston/moreinfo
is reported as having 6 duplicated URL in the tool. When I click on 6, SEOMOZ tells me "Our crawl bots are getting their joints greased to fetch you even better data. Sorry for the delay!"
And on the page itself, I placed a canonical link to follow recommandation.
rel="canonical" href="http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/events/apr2012training-boston" />
As a result I am curious why I would have this reported as duplicate by SEOmoz.
Is this a bug?
Thanks for feedback!
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Looks like we had a minor bug and it got fixed last night - you should be able to see the duplicates now. I checked out a couple, and we're crawling a few tracking parameters in URLs, such as:
utm_source=enews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=enews20120117
Looks like these might be links in an e-mail newsletter? The good news is that Google is pretty good about ignoring these, and it looks like your canonical tag is properly configured. I think we may be reporting these too aggressively. As far as I can tell, you should be ok.
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Unfortunately, it looks like we haven't completed the full crawl on your site yet, although I'll ask the team.
I am seeing another page rank in Google for the Title:
"Nuxeo Document Management December 2011 Training"
It's this one:
http://www.nuxeo.com/en/layout/set/print/about/events/dec2011training-boston
I have a feeling that, with all of the forms and date variations, you're creating near-duplicates that are low-value. These aren't 100% duplicated, but it's enough that Google is filtering out the main page.
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Greetings Champions!
I could be blind or weary from slaying dragons but it appears the your Canonical link is not even in place to resolve this burden placed upon you good sir.
view-source:http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/events/dec2011training-boston/moreinfo
Here is an Example of what the source with a canonical link looks like.
view-source:http://www.americanscooterstore.com/Daytona_GT_3_Wheel_by_Drive_Medical.html
Good luck on your quest for Page 1!
Justin Smith
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You are producing duplicate content on the monthly pages e.g.
http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/events/apr2012training-boston
http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/events/jan2012training-boston
Cut and paste a chunk of the page text into the Google search box, you will then see all the duplicates being indexed by Google.
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