Duplicate Page Title

[jzabkowicz]

I am seeing pages show up in my campaign Errors report for Duplicate Page Title.

One for example states that this page:

https://www.inprocorp.com/AboutInPro/AboutUs/HistoryTimeline/tabid/316/Default.aspx

has a duplicate page title as this page:

https://www.inprocorp.com/AboutInPro/HistoryTimeline/tabid/316/Default.aspx

I have a redirect setup so that if you access page #2, you are redirected to page #1.  So how do I get errors like this to drop off my report?  Have I not fixed the problem sufficiently for the crawler?

Thanks,

John

[ChiarynMiranda]

Hi John,

Thanks for writing in and sorry for the confusion. We start each crawl completely from scratch, so we should be picking up the 301 redirect now if it has been there for a few weeks.

I downloaded the crawl diagnostics CSV and it is definitely not showing the redirect from one page to the other, but I can definitely see the redirect when I use the developer tools in my browser. I have never seen the crawler have issues detecting a redirect before, so this seems very strange to me. I am going to have to send this over to our engineers so we can investigate the issue further. I will create an email request in our system so I can get a few more details from you and send the campaign information over to them. You should be receiving an email from me shortly.

Thanks,

Chiaryn
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[CleverPhD]

Ok good to know.  I think though still, this should be easily answered by the Moz product folks to explain how they look at things like this.  It will be helpful in understanding the reports.  I would assume that once you have the 301 in place, the Moz report should be fine, but maybe they are looking at something else and if they are - that data should be in the crawl report.

Glad you asked this question!

[jzabkowicz]

Yes, the crawl occurred before the 301, but the redirect has been in place now for several crawls and it is still showing up.  Looking for links pointing to the old URL is a good suggestion. I'll see if I can find any of those.  Thanks.

[CleverPhD]

Did the crawl occur before you had the 301 setup?  The other thing is that if you have any links on your site pointing to the old URL, update them to point to the new one.

I know that in GWT that it takes a while sometimes for things like this to clear up even after you have a 301, but not as familiar with how Roger treats it within Moz.

[JMacSupply]

You can use the canonical tag as Guy mentioned, but the redirect you have in place should serve your purpose.

[ciznerguy]

no need to redirect.

use the canonical tag to tell search engines which is the real page and which are its' duplicate.

look here