Dupe content report showing in 'Errors' section when surely should be in 'Warnings' section ?
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Why is the dupe content info showing in errors and not warnings ?
Since if dupe content can get your site penalised (as per Panda) or worse banned, surely it should be in that section of reports ?
Cheers
Dan -
Cool !, thanks for clarifying Dr Pete !
Cheers
Dan
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Ah, I understand what you're saying. I think part of it may be that many of the errors are more technical in nature - they're severe, but not generally "black-hat" or "gray-hat" kind of things. Massive dupe content can get you hit with Panda, but people debate whether that's a Capital-P "penalty" (which some reserve mostly for manual penalties). Unfortunately, it is a bit of a loaded word.
Of course, all the copy is changing in Moz Analytics, so this may be a moot point
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Hey Dr Pete, thanks for commenting
Sorry to be confusing, i appreciate i'm probably being a tad pedantic here but i just would have thought that the subheader for the 'crawl errors' section in the reports summary would, similar to the 'crawl warnings' subheader, also mention 'could be penalised' (due to things like dupe content being potential causes of a penalty) ?
All Best
Dan
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Sorry, I'm confused - we do consider it very serious, and "error" is our top level of priority.
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i would have thought getting penalized by engines more serious
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Yes, errors are a more severe category than warnings.
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Perhaps their word choice is off, but from my understanding "errors" are more severe than 'warnings," hence the red for errors vs the yellow for warnings. They probably put "dupe content" in errors, because it's more dangerous for your site.
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