Are there any tricks for checking duplicate content?
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Hello all,
My MOZ weekly scan keeps coming back with indication for duplicate content on pages that don't have that much alike. I feel like I must be missing something. Is there any place I can plug in two urls so that it would tell me what the similarities are and figure out how to make it less of a duplicate content?
https://www.stage32.com/happy-writers/pitch-sessions/Pitch-Amar-Hansen-Saturday-October-29th-2016
and
https://www.stage32.com/happy-writers/pitch-sessions/Pitch-Will-Raynor-Wednesday-November-16th-2016OR
https://www.stage32.com/webinars/Film-Contracts-101-Everything-You-Need-To-Know
and
https://www.stage32.com/webinars/Breaking-Down-IP-Intellectual-Property-For-DevelopmentAny ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Hi Tomasz,
Loading with a delay may alter the effect of what a tool reports I guess (though the tools may wait until the page is fully loaded/DOM ready or something?), but I don't think it'll solve the issue as such to be honest, as the dupe content would still be on the page.
If you don't like the idea of a link opening in a new tab, there's always the option of an iframe I guess, on the relevant tabs? Though it'd be a bit of work to make it responsive.
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Thanks Tawny, I'm checking it out right now.
You rock!
T.
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Thanks so much Mike. I didn't consider the remaining tabs, I suppose loading them with delay might also be an option. I appreciate your speedy response.
Cheers,
Tomasz -
Hmmm looking at the first 2 pages, I think I can see what's happening here
Not 100% on how Moz's tool figures out dupe content, but I think this is why (3rd point is strongest, I think):
- Similar URLs (first part up to the last folder, then first word, then both ending in 2016) means the URL is a close match
- The title tags are also quite similar
- Perhaps most importantly, it does look like the VAST MAJORITY of the content on the page is in fact duplicate of other pages. It's not obvious at first BUT... To see what I mean, click on the 'Guidelines' tab (looks like jQuery tabs or similar) and we get a big amount of content - the most on the page - that's duplicated between both pages.
Perhaps consider making that a link to a dedicated page that has this content, opening in a new tab or similar?
For your 2nd two examples, check the 'About Your Instructor' and 'FAQs'. I'd advise that where content is repeated over & over, move it to it's own page and then link to it from there, rather than having the same several hundred words indexed on many pages.
Hope that helps?
Ps. There may be a better solution for displaying the content, iframing it into the tab etc, but if you go down that route be careful, it's an effort to make iframes responsive!
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Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Customer Support team here.
One tool we use pretty frequently to take a look at the similarity between two pages is this one: http://smallseotools.com/similar-page-checker/
That won't give you suggestions for how to differentiate the content on those pages, but it'll do a pretty good job of pointing out what on the page is similar, which could help highlight areas where you could bulk up the content to differentiate it a bit.
I hope this helps! If you have any other questions or if there's anything that needs clarifying, feel free to send us a note at help@moz.com!
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