SEOmoz duplicate content checker

[jazavide]

From my reports in seomoz i can see pages that are showing as having duplicate content but when i click on them it does not show me which pages are carrying the duplicate content?

Is there any way to check this via semoz reports?

[MeganSingley]

Hi Jazavide!

This is Megan from SEOmoz. Sorry about the troubles finding your duplicate URLs! If you click into the duplicate content error, there's a section that says 'other URLs' with numbers that you can click on. Here's a screenshot: http://screencast.com/t/617gjHQFx34

Once you click on these numbers, you'll be able to see the URLs that are duplicates.  You can also find this information by exporting your crawl diagnostics to a CSV: http://screencast.com/t/dS0ptEPx

We also have a great resource for learning more about the crawl diagnostics section of your campaign in our Help Hub: http://www.seomoz.org/help/crawl-diagnostics

I hope this helps!

[Chammy]

Hi jazavid

Another way you can check is to run a crawl test under the SEO Web Crawler Tool.

Open the results in Excel. You will see the Yes/No to duplicate content question in column L. Column M is headed up as 'URLs with Duplicate Page Content (up to 5)' For every URL that says Yes to duplicate content, you will see listed up to 5 other URLs that are considered as duplicate

Hope this helps

[DarinPirkey]

It does show the pages that are showing the duplicate content.

If you go to your dashboard and click on the campaign you want.

Under "crawl diagnostics" and "most common errors and warnings" click on the blue link that says "duplicate page content"

Once you are there, scroll down to below the graph and you'll see the pages there.

[jazavide]

All I really wanted to know is if the semoz duplication tool carrys out its full purpose.

So I can see that seomoz identifies that there is duplicate content via the crawl diagnostics but then it seems not to show where these duplicate pages are?  So it seems like the tool is only doing half of its job unless i am using it incorrectly?

Anyone any ideas if this tool identifies which are the duplicate pages?

Thanks

[donford]

If you have a campaign setup you can go to the crawl diagnostics and click on the duplicate content warning to get more details. If not then perhaps you could use Google Webmaster Tools.

Here is a post about finding duplicate content that can help on SearchEngineJournal.com

Usually duplicate content is caused by urls's and can be fixed with 301 or canonical tags.

Hope this helps,