Duplicate Page Content and Title - Miva - How to fix?
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Hi,
I'm new to SEOmoz and just diving into it. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. I use Miva Merchant as my storefront interface. SEMOz is returning a bunch of duplicate page content and duplicate page titles and I can't figure out what to do about it. It seems it may have something to do with Miva shortlinks. I click on the dup URL's in SEMOz and it brings me to a dead page. I can't figure out where it's coming from.
I know without seeing the actual information it'll probably be tough to help me but any suggestions would be appreciated. I try to fix them and come to a point (after about three hours of getting nowhere) it becomes too frustrating.
Thanks!
Gary -
Possibly. Another possibility is that it doesn't even matter - I recall you said that the URL's from OSE landed you on dead (presumably 404) pages. So if the duplicate content is not actually there in reality (ie, when you visit the page), it might just be an error or an artifact of OSE's crawl procedures meeting with some weird code in Miva.
But yeah if you feel like hiring a "Miva pro" is what you need to do then that could be a good idea too - I'm really not in a position to say either way, with my lack of experience with the software and all.
Best of luck anyway.
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Hi Clancy,
Thanks for your input. I have tried the Miva tech support and they know less about it then I do! Although Miva has been pretty good. I do have access to all the coding and they offer free classes from time to time for Miva coding. But I'm a newbie at code/css and the like. It seems I may have to pay a Miva pro to figure it out.
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This is why it can be frustrating to work with third party platforms that don't afford you a huge level of control or customization at the code level. Assuming it's not canonicalization issues?
I haven't used Miva personally, so I don't know much about that specifically. Have you already taken up the matter with their support department?
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