Is there a way to specify what SEOmoz classes as duplicate content?
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Hi all,
Currently working through the laundry list of errors and warning on our company's 24 websites. Due to the ridiculous amount of on page links and the sheer volume of products on our sites, much of the descriptive text is similar, following a strict pattern to best mention our USPs and the like. Of course we use a CMS, which means that all the pages look the same and draw this information from the style sheet.
Anyways, to the problem at hand. I have been tasked with reducing the "error" count on the SEOmoz admin panel, the problem being SEOmoz is reporting duplicate page content, when they are different, but similar products, for example, 35, 45 and 55 litre refrigeration units.
Is there a way in which I can specify what classes as duplicate content, or make the duplicate content report more restrictive, so that everything HAS to be the same for this error to show.
Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance.
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There isn't no. However I'd also suggest that you definitely wouldn't want to filter out such results anyway.
If your site has a separate page each for the 35, 45 and 55 litre refrigeration units and those pages are largely similar then this is exactly the sort of issue that the tool is designed to find. It flags up such duplication as that is a problem because Google doesn't like such pages.
In the example that you gave I would be looking to either rewrite descriptions or to consolidate items where only size (for example) differs in to one page with an attribute select.
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