Social Media Causing Duplicate Content
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Recently, I spent some time in the SEO MOZ Crawl Diagnostics, and found that I have 40 pages that are being listed as “duplicate content.”
These are original blog posts, but I made the mistake of sharing on social media immediately after publishing each post. I recently found out that if you post on a blog and on social on the same day, Google indexes the social first, and then up to 2 weeks later indexes the actual blog post. When it does, it stamps the blog post as duplicate and the social media posting as the original.
Any ideas on how I can rectify this? Any code I can put in each blog post to let Google know they’re the original? I’ve begun publicizing my blogs on social 14 days after I actually publish them to alleviate the issue going forward, but I’d like my 40 other blog posts to get the authority they deserve.
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Hi Jacob!
Dirk is absolutely right—the Duplicate Content notice in Crawl Diagnostics indicates that our crawler is fining those instances of duplicate content on your site. As he suggests, I'd definitely recommend using the CSV to figure out which pages are showing up as duplicates.
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Thank you for the further clarification.
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Hi Jacob,
My point was that if the Moz crawler find duplicate content it has to be on your site - the Moz crawler is only crawling your site - not the social media. It may well be that you also have duplicate content issues across sites because you post on social media as well but the Moz crawler is completely unaware of that. The original advices remains valid - check which pages Moz considers to be duplicates and act accordingly.
rgds,
Dirk
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Hi,
If the Moz crawler is finding duplicate content it implies that there is duplicate content on your site, not duplicate content on social media.
You can download the csv in the crawl report (or click the + icon) to see which pages Moz considers to be duplicates. Comparing the pages can help you find a solution (like a canonical url, or a 301 redirect, ...)
Hope this helps,
Dirk
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