Duplicate page content query
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Hi forum,
For some reason I have recently received a large increase in my Duplicate Page Content issues. Currently it says I have over 7,000 duplicate page content errors!
For example it says:
Sample URLs with this Duplicate Page Content
http://dikelli.com.au/accessories/gowns/news.html
http://dikelli.com.au/accessories/news.html
http://dikelli.com.au/gallery/dikelli/gowns/gowns/sale_gowns.htmlHowever there are no physical links to any of these page on my site and even when I look at my FTP files (I am using Dreamweaver) these directories and files do not exist.
Can anyone please tell me why the SEOMOZ crawl is coming up with these errors and how to solve them?
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Thanks Seowoody, will give it a try!
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Hey Sterls, I've found your problem. Your "home" link in your breadcrumb trail is NOT root relative. So on this page (http://dikelli.com.au/accessories/Helene Zubeldia/accessories_helene_earrings_05.html) for example your home link points to: http://dikelli.com.au/gallery/dikelli/index.html Change it from index.html to /index.html This should solve it for you. Goodluck with the site, Woody
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