SEOMOZ returns duplicate title and description
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Hi,
When SEOMOZ returns the crawl report results and it shows duplicate descriptions, is it referring to the meta description or is it referring to the actual product description?
I have up to 30 products for many different sports teams. Since I have 30 products for as many teams, most of my products are the same and he only thing I did when I populated the site was to change the team name. I left the product description the same otherwise.
Thanks,
Don
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Thanks Moosa.
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Thanks Saijo.
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Its Meta description that we use for SEO. You will find the below given code in the for Meta description!
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It would be the meta description
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