Dupplicate Page Content
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Hey Guys
SEOMOZ is showing up Dupplicate Page Content, but this just comes up because we use Tags at all the blog posts.
Should we better not use Tags?
Thanks in advance...
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My view on tags is that they are helpful for humans to find information on a specific topic quickly. Being that they are more beneficial to human visitors than search engines, I have always blocked tag pages from being indexed via robots.txt. I also block categories and feeds from being crawled as well. This may be overkill, but it has worked well for me to avoid duplicate content issues on various blogs that I help manage.
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The "Other URLs" column offers the number of duplicates. That number is a hyperlink to a new page which offers the details you seek. Take a look and if you have any questions share that screenshot.
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The most common cause of duplicate content is multiple versions of a URL point to the same content.
Each of the above examples, along with many others, can all point to the exact same page. The issue can be resolved by adding a canonical tag to your page's html. In the tag of your html add
Replace the URL in the example with the URL of your page. Once that is done, run a new crawl report. If you continue to find duplicate content, take a look at the exact URLs and referring pages to help narrow down the issue.
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