Squarespace Errors

[RainforestCruises]

We have a website hosted by SquareSpace. We are happy with SS, but have done some crawl diagnostics and noticed several errors.

These are primarily:

• Duplicate Page Title

• Duplicate Page Content

• Client Error (4xx)

We dont really understand why these errors are taking place, and wonder if someone in the Seomoz forum has a firm understanding of SS who is able to assist us with this?

rainforestcruises.com

thanks.

[evolvingSEO]

Hi! Looks like Rand beat us to this one, but just a few quick things to add for ya.

I did a quick crawl of the site in Screaming Frog.

Looks like most of the duplicates titles are due to two things;

1. Your tag pages all of the same name. There must be away to set your titles for tag pages to reflect the tag name.
2. Its counting every page twice - one with the slash at the end (ie: /contact-us/) and without (ie: /contact-us)

(note: seems like the same for your descriptions and pages headers - this could be the "duplicate page content error")

So, fix your tag pages and see about why the pages are loading with a slash and without.

The 404s are there, but they look like some sort of squarspace issue with how images are cached or something - not actual pages on the site. Looks like one of your links to wikipedia has a stray character in it causing it to be a broken link.

I would verify/cross check these errors in Google Webmaster Tools and then Rand's suggestion is perfect for the 404s.

Hope between all of that it helps!

-Dan

[randfish]

Hi Jeremy - I've worked with the SquareSpace crew a bit personally (don't know the system inside and out, but have a reasonable grasp on it). Could you share the URLs that are being reported with the duplicate issues? It's likely a URL parameter that's relatively easy to fix with rel=canonical or the like.

As far as 404s - you might want to download the XLS for those and see which pages are being reported as pointing to the error pages. If you think they should be active, repair them, and if there's a structural problem, you may need to report to SquareSpace's customer service.

Sorry for my long delay!

Rand