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JML1179 last edited by

I am getting duplicate content warnings on the SEOMOZ crawl. I don't know where the content is duplicated. Is there a site that will find duplicate content?
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If you're looking at the Campaign Overview page, you'll notice that the words Duplicate Page Content next to the bar graph are a link. Clicking there will take you to a full page about your duplicate content issues.

One of the columns in that report is Other URLs. if you click on the numeral that represents the number of other dupe pages found, it will show you a list of the other pages that share that dupe content.

Is that what you were looking for?

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