Duplicate conent

[sandyallain]

I found some duplicate content on my site.... but in my SEOMOZ campaigns account. It says that I do not have duplicate content...

what is wrong? is the tool working ?

[sandyallain]

I have put my site in copyscape.com for a full duplicate content check...

there are 2 pages duplicate... oops I remember those... the legal policy I was bored to write and sorry sorry got too much from other sites but my fault... i was just too lazy for that page...

then you small things.... but over all it is no more than 5% to 10% or even less...

http://www.copyscape.com/probrowse.php?u=sandyallain&c=eed7840&batch=1&l=1

should I be worry ?

[TomRayner]

How much does the content that you've found contribute to the page?  Is it 10% of the page? 15%? More?

I ask because there appears to be a threshold, an invisible line in the sand if you will, that will tell the SEOMoz crawler and the Google bot.  Some duplicate content is always to be expected - after all site navigations are replicated on every page.  With my current client as well, we need to have a risk warning and an FSA disclaimer on each page of our website for legal reasons.  We've not been flagged for duplicate content because we add as much rich and unique content to the page as possible.  So you have some degree of leniency.

If the duplicate content takes up most of the content on the page and the crawler hasn't flagged it, it may not have been able to find it.  In this case, fix the duplicate content issue ASAP, but then look at your site architecture to see if a crawler could easily access the page in less than 5 steps/links - and check your source code to see if there's any meta data blocking crawlers in the header and also in your robots.txt file.

Hope this helps!

[sandyallain]

it is the index page of the site

www.simplyparis.org

[HeatherBakerTopLine]

It could well be that one of the pages on which the duplicate content exists has a NoIndex tag - have you checked that? That way it wouldn't be picked up by search engines.

Or, is one of the pages simply low down the webpage food chain and not being picked up at all?

Go into your Google Webmaster Tools account to see what Google says.