Moz analytics showing joomla tag feature as duplicate page content
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Moz Analytics is showing Joomla 3 tag pages as Duplicate Page Content because many articles are tagged with multiple words and therefore show up on the same tag-pages.
example URL: www.domain.com/tag/tagID-tagname
I already added "tag" as a URL parameter with Crawl=No URLs.
Is there anything else I should do?
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Sorry, I looked at the site after I sent that message. I have seen results where the full article was displayed in the tag page, and was causing a duplication issue. My mistake.
How are your tags set up? Are you using numbers or keywords to tag articles to categories? Here are a few I found:
http://transitionconsultants.com/tags
http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/3
http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/29
http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/60
http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/61
http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/48
http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/59
http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/65If you are using keywords, then the numerical version could be duplicated with the keyword version.
The query with the question mark in the url was found using the search function. If you search for an article, it will display the same content on both URL's. Since it is using the ? in the URL, I wouldn't worry about it as it is generated dynamically. Only if you see them start popping up in indexed results would I take action.
When I was looking around, I also found some links that looked like they were supposed to go somewhere, under "from our blog"
http://transitionconsultants.com/web-links/ -
Isn't the tag results page only showing the links to the articles. Example: http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/2-pain
Remind me what is creating the "?highlight=WyJyZWQiLCJmbGFncyIsInJlZCBmbGFncyJd" ?
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I think the robots rule is a good place to start.
Since the tagging system was a selling point of the site, you could also consider setting up the tagging pages manually, in which the page only displays the links to the articles, not the full articles. It would function the same, and keep your client happy.
Are your URL's set to be SEF and canonical in Joomla?
It also looks like you have a duplication from using the search function.
http://transitionconsultants.com/articles/511-red-flags-for-practice-buyers
http://transitionconsultants.com/articles/511-red-flags-for-practice-buyers?highlight=WyJyZWQiLCJmbGFncyIsInJlZCBmbGFncyJd -
Should I add this to my robot.txt?
Disallow: /tag/
In order to prevent SEs from indexing these type of URLs: http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/2-pain
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The Joomla tag system was a selling point for this site's functionality. So I can't remove it.
The url parameter was configured Apr 14, 2014. I thought that the URL parameter was the solution. How long should it take?
The other question is if I set the URL parameter to Crawl=No URLs and assume that google will not index these pages and therefore not get dinged for duplicate content, then will Moz analytics also stop warning me of duplicate content? I don't see a URL parameter for Moz analytics.
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I understand your frustration. We use joomla 3.2 and newer almost exclusively and have ran into this before.
We stopped using the tag system, and started setting up our sites as basic as possible from a url and navigation standpoint. One article tied to one url, no tags, no front page blog layouts. This is one of the downfalls of using a cms, strange url creation.
For users, I can see how the tagging system can help find what you are looking for, but not for search engines, since you will have the same articles on more than one url
How long ago did you submit the request for the url parameter? If you don't see the results you want from that, I would remove the tags, and do a url removal request in webmaster tools.
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