Duplicate page issue in website
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i found duplicate pages in my website. seomoz is showing duplicate web pages this is issue or not please tell me?
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Wordpress always does this.
I haven't used it myself, but have a look at this plugin that may help you:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicate-posts-remover/
Andy
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i am using worldpress for bloging.
i am doing daily update of my website. my website is for jobs, and jobs are coming again and again so dublicate title are coming.
so i think it is not problem
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What platform are your using? Is it Wordpress or something similar?
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Hello Zeeshan
Duplicate web pages is most certainly an issue. If Seomoz is finding the problem you can bet Google is as well. The problem is when you present duplicate information the search engines have trouble ranking the correct page. So it is always recommended to remove or fix any duplicate problems.
There are 2 kinds of duplicate web pages ->
Duplicate Content
Duplicate Tags (Title / Description)Duplicate content happens when you copy paste content from one page to another. Basically re-using the same paragraphs text images etc. over and over.
Duplicate Tags happen when a page has the same title or description tag as another page. This usually is the result of websites that create pages dynamically or use $_GET methods. Typically if you have duplicate tag warnings you also have a duplicate content problem since the page is just re-created as a different url.
If you only have a duplicate content problem then you can simply write unique content for each page. This includes images, alt text, headers (h1, h2, h3, h4...)
If you have duplicate tag issues then you need to look at the website ascertain if the problem is a because of the website generating multiple urls with the same content or if somebody has simply used the title / description tags in 2 or more places.
If the problem is because of dynamic URL's then you may fix them by using rel="canonical', prev or next meta tags. CodingStuff put a good link to the appropriate page. here.
If the problem is just the same tag in 2 or more places change one.
Please note after any fix the crawlers will need some time to re-crawl your site, this usually is the following week.
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Hi Zeeshan
Are you saying that you have found duplicate pages on your site or that SEOmoz is reporting duplicate pages that you cannot find?
However if you are simply asking is duplicate content is an issue? then here is your answer - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world
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