Same URL in "Duplicate Content" and "Blocked by robots.txt"?
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How can the same URL show up in Seomoz Crawl Diagnostics "Most common errors and warnings" in both the "Duplicate Content"-list and the "Blocked by robots.txt"-list?
Shouldnt the latter exclude it from the first list?
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It's kinda strange. I would expect all URLs blocked by robots.txt to NOT show up anywhere on Seomoz.
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I think that both of these tools are mutually exclusive. It does not take into consideration that a page blocked to spiders won't count against you in terms of duplicate content, but maybe it should!
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