Hi guys What the best way to adress duplicate content on photo gallery?
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inside my moz report for duplicate contentit says that the photo gallery has duplicate content.
let me post and example.
is saying this site->http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/name-of-the-page
site photogallery category page name
its being duplicated to all these other urls :
http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/name-of-the-page-categoryone
http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/name-of-the-page-categorytwo
http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/name-of-the-page-categorythree
http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/name-of-the-page-categoryfour
and so on!
each one has it own canonical tag to its own individual page.
the site structure is this:
http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/
in here there are all the links pointing to the right categorypage
ie:
http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/ >>>>
http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/categoryone
pic 1
pic 2
pic 3
http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/categorytwo
pic 1
pic 2
pic 3
http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/categorythree
pic 1
pic 2
pic 3
http://www.yoursite.com//photogallery/categoryfour
pic 1
pic 2
pic 3
So i don't know how to interpret Moz diagnose.
how could i interpret moz reports to find out what to fix and how to fix it?
Sorry for the long post! ;
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When you say that "each one has it own canonical tag to its own individual page", do you mean that "./name-of-the-page-categoryone" has a canonical pointing back to "/name-of-the-page"? Are there other variations (sorts, filters, etc)? Typically, it's best not to have different categories land you on custom URLs with the same content. If, for example, a product appears in multiple categories, you should still land on one unified URL when you actual click to the product, regardless of the path/category used to get you there.
That said, rel=canonical should work, and our tools should generally honor it. I have a feeling that there's something more complicated going on here.
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Hi,
This is quite hard to diagnose without seeing the actual page content but I can give you some pointers:
1. It sounds like the textual variance between the core gallery page and the individual category pages is too low. If you want to rank for the individual category gallery pages then consider writing a different paragraph on each page (100-200 words) to vary them as well as varying the title, description, headings and anything else that you can. Google will then index all of the pages and they won't have duplicate content.
2. If you don't need to rank for the category pages, and want to keep the content the same (apart from the images), then consider using a rel=canonical from the category pages back to the core gallery page. Google will then only index the core gallery page and you don't need to worry about the content being duplicated. Moz should honour the use of rel=canonical and not report duplicate content any more.
George
@methodicalweb
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