Why are my changes not being updated?
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Last week, I was notified of having a lot of duplicated title pages. I've recently made the changes on my website with unique content.
I went back on MOZ this morning, and I'm still notified with the same problems. However, when I check the back end of that specific page, I see the changes already made. My question is, why are my changes not being updated in MOZ? Does it take awhile for MOZ to recognize this or am I missing a step?
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Lastly, I've been using this pattern in regards to meta tag titles...
company name | description
Since all the descriptions are unique, would it still be considered a duplicate, given that I'm always including the company name?
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Thanks for all your suggestions!
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Pipe symbols don't hurt, the suck up one character spot as any other symbol. Just make sure your title tags are readable and enticing to the potential viewer. In other words.. make it seem to me like "this is the page I want to visit to learn more about sourcing coffee from Ethiopa." So maybe it should read more naturally like "Klatch Coffee Blog: Our Ethiopian Sourcing Trip"
That's what I would do. Not only does that save characters, but it reads more like a Title. Make sense?
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Thanks, Jesse!
I'll checkout the weekly updates.
On a side note, I've been changing the meta tag titles to make it more organized. I was wondering if using the symbol "|" to divide the categories would be necessary to have, or would it hurt my overall results?
For example: Klatch Coffee | Coffee Blog | Ethiopia Sourcing Trip
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Moz crawl your site weekly and any updates to duplicate content issues will get updated at that time.
The actual day it gets crawled varies depending on account I believe. You can check when it's due in the Crawl Diagnostics section of the campaign overview. At the bottom right you should see last crawl date and when next is due.
So any fixes you're making won't be reflected until the next Moz crawl.
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Moz only updates campaigns once a week. This usually happens on a Monday, but chances are your campaign has not been updated yet. It should tell you on all of these pages when exactly the last update was done so you can confirm, but I'm sure this is your issue..
You'll get an email notification when your campaign has been updated and is ready for you to view as well.
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