Can't figure out why some of my pages are duplicate content
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Within the crawl diagnostics area I'm getting duplicate page content issues on several pages. I don't know why, would anyone be able to tell me how these links are duplicate so I can fix them?
http://www.sagenews.ca/Column.asp?id=3010
http://www.sagenews.ca/Column.asp?id=2808
http://www.sagenews.ca/Column.asp?id=2998
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Actually, #4 doesn't impact the duplicate content checking for Moz.
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Thanks, I'll fix 1-3 and see what we can do about #4. That one will take a while longer if we're able to do it.
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Obviously these are not duplicate pages but I think your pages are drawing the duplicate content flags because
- You have the same h1 for each one (man vs. world) and
- Your content other than your actual picture is all very similar (i.e. disclaimer)
- You have no alt image tags so the crawler has no idea what sort of image it's looking at
- Your URLS are very similar (I'd switch to a more SEO friendly URL structure if your CMS allows)
I would fix #1-3 for sure since those are pretty easy fixes and then see if that causes the notices to cease. If not, I would fix #4 as well. Long term, you are going to want to fix #4 regardless so you might as well bite the bullet.
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The short answer is that Google and Moz don't look at images. If you turn off your images, there's not too much different between those pages.
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