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I thought my site is fine until I joined SEOmoz and had my site crawled, took couple of hours to crawl the site I received a e-mail "This is a friendly notification that we successfully completed a Starter Crawl of your campaign. No need to stress, we made an easy-to-understand report so you can fix any errors we found." HMMMM I was surprised at the number of errors that my page has. I went over the crawl diagnostics and found out that I have a large number of duplicate page content. That can't be since I place the content on the site myself. All the pages from the back-end are single. I would appreciate if someone from this wonderful forum educated me on this topic and if possible provided me with a straight forward solution to this problem. Looking forward to hearing some comments.
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Hi Tolod
I see your most concerning error being that your IP address does not seem to be resolving to your domain name, looks like your DNS settings are not configured properly.
I.E. http://208.43.169.47/watches-and-accessories is showing in the browser address bar instead of http://www.watchrepairny.com/watches-and-accessories
If you're not sure how to correct this, your hosting provider should be able to help.
Regarding duplicate content errors, have a check which pages are being reported as duplicate and compare them against each other to come up with your own conclusions. To be classed as duplicate, they would need to have substantially similar content rather than exactly the same content. Could be that your titles, descriptions and headers are very similar.
Hope that helps,
Regards
Simon
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Have you read Dr. Pete's SEOmoz blog post about duplicate content to see if any of that might apply to you? Even if your back-end is showing one page, it could still be generating multiple pages.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world
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Ehat Cms are you using? I had some hard time with joomla as engines somehow always found unpublished items and deleted urls. That can cause trouble. In wp if you have identical tags only relevant to one post that is again a great source of duplicates content. If your urls are available with and without www (that is not cms specific) again: duplicate content. If your urls are availabe with and without a slash in the end that is once again a duplicte. Look at the crawl diagnostic to see what are your duplicates and how could your CMS generate them?
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Have you place a rel="canonical" tag?
Here is a nice little video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9onOGTgeM&feature=player_embedded
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