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SEOmoz crawler and duplicate content

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neooptic last edited by

Does anybody know if the SEOmoz crawler picks up canonical tags when its looking for duplicate content? I've got a ton of errors in one of my projects even though they all have canonical tags.

Thanks!
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jeffreytrull1 last edited by

In my experience, it does a good job of picking up the canonical tags. In fact, if you go into your campaign, go into the Crawl Diagnostics section, then click the blue "Notices" button, it will show you how many "Rel canonical" URLs were picked up.

If you're not getting many pages shown here, perhaps you should recheck to be sure your tags are implemented properly.
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