Moz is showing different "errors" than Webmaster tools
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I have set up my Moz campaign and the crawl errors are showing multiple duplicate content and page titles however when I check my webmaster tools data, these errors are not showing up.
Is this normal and who should I listen to?
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Correct, Moz is not able to see what you have in Google Webmaster Tools.
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Different goals for the two tools.
WMT is designed to give you some idea of what Google sees. It's a way for Google to give you feedback but Google is not in the business of telling you what to do with SEO. Google wants you to offer your best search face for their sake (i.e. if you have a lot of duplicate title tags, Google has to guess what to feed the end user). They offer useful hints and that's about it. If WMT hints something, you should pay attention.
Moz, on the other hand, is an SEO tool. It's looking to tell you everything you could want to know from an SEO perspective. So Moz over-reports things just in case you want that information (i.e. how many canonicals it found). Not everything in Moz should be heeded. it's up to you to figure out what to do with the information.
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Thank you.
Most of the duplicate title tags were occurring with categories and filters. However, I have set up URL parameters in GWT - will Moz not be able to see theses?
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Have you manually checked the page(s) in question with the duplicate titles ?
Open up two of the pages being flagged as duplicates and check the source code (CTRL + U) then check the <title>tag in each. Are they identical ? If they are the same, then MOZ was correct, you'll need to edit one of them; if they are not identical then just wait for the next moz crawl and re-verify.</p></title>
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From my experience these two systems update at different speeds, so it is possible to see errors on one platform but not the other. I would first go by MOZ and then check GWT. In both cases however, if a crawl error occurs it should be examined whether it is on either one.
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