641 Crawl Errors In My Moz Report - 190 are high priority Duplicate Content
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Hi everyone,
There are high and medium level errors. I was surprised to see any especially since Google Analytics shows no errors whatsoever.190 errors - duplicate content.A lot of images are showing in the Moz Crawl Report as errors, and when I click on one of these links in the report, it directs to the image which displays on a blog post on the site unusually since I haven't started blogging yet.. So it looks like all those errors are because the images are appearing on their own post.So for example a picture of a mountain would be referred to with www.domain.com/mountains ; the image would be included in the content on a page but why give an image a page/post all of it's own when that was not my intention. Is there a way I can change this?# ----------------------------------------
These are things I first see at the top of the Moz Report:There are 2 similar home urls at the top of the report:
http status code is 200 for both (1) and (2)
Link Count for (1) is 71. Link count for (2) is 60.
No client or server errors
Rel Canonical Rel-Canonical Target
Yes http:// domain. co.uk/home
Yes http:// domain. co.uk/home/Does this mean that the home page is being seen as a duplicate by Google and the search engines?http status codes on every page is 200.Your help would be appreciated.Best Regards,
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Hi ,
Many thanks for responding. Yes definitely a few issues for sure it's been quite frustrating so far and I have been looking at ways to get the site fully correct: Traffic lost, 3 Htaccess files, 2 robots.tx files. A new site was built on a subdomain and then migrated to the live domain.
I looked at the file structure and I saw lots of duplicate images on the subdomain where the new version of the website was created, and lots of duplicates on the current site. I will be running another Moz Crawl test to see if the removal of the duplicates makes an impact on the 190 errors. I will keep you updated so please leave this topic discussion. I think perhaps part of what has happened is that some of the images have previously uploaded but have not loaded into the right folder, but to the home directory (hence to domain.com/exampleimage instead of domain.com/wp-content/uploads/exampleimage. Also I think that an add was done during the migration which was done by a 3rd party, instead of doing a replacement of the destination files; but I can't confirm or guarantee this.
- I will check the link that you kindly left. It's 4am here in the UK so I will read it before I retire for the evening:
https://moz.com/community/q/cms-pages-multiple-urls
- The CMS is WordPress
Many thanks for your time and for your much needed reply.
Kind Regards.
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Hi there,
Sounds like you are dealing with a bunch of issues here.
I suggest the first thing you address is the trailing slash issues
http:// domain. co.uk/home
http:// domain. co.uk/home/are different urls in Googles eyes despite being the same on your website.
To fix this take a loot at a previous post by myself figuring it out
https://moz.com/community/q/cms-pages-multiple-urls
This should hopefully cut down the number of errors appearing dramatically. Make sure your only ever using one version of link either with or without a trailing slash. Make the decision and always use that format.
As for your images appearing on a page of their own. We would need to know your CMS platform. A link to your site would also be helpful as you have so many errors its kinda a stab in the dark to figure it out for you without looking
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I did find this on Moz dating back to 2014 and there was still no fix for the problem back then?
https://moz.com/community/q/duplicate-content-wordpress-image-attachement
Please can you help. Thank you
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