Ticket Industry E-commerce Duplicate Content Question
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Hey everyone,
How goes it? I've got a bunch of duplicate content issues flagged in my Moz report and I can't figure out why. We're a ticketing site and the pages that are causing the duplicate content are for events that we no longer offer tickets to, but that we will eventually offer tickets to again. Check these examples out:
http://www.charged.fm/mlb-all-star-game-tickets
http://www.charged.fm/fiba-world-championship-tickets
I realize the content is thin and that these pages basically the same, but I understood that since the Title tags are different that they shouldn't appear to the Goog as duplicate content. Could anyone offer me some insight or solutions to this? Should they be noindexed while the events aren't active?
Thanks
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Are you asking about why Moz would or would not consider them duplicate, or why Google would or would not consider them duplicate?
We don't have knowledge of exactly what factors Google uses to detect duplicate content. We approximate the best we can, and give a notice when we see things that look substantially alike.
I did get the two pages in the original question to load. There are only a couple of words that are different, and the rest of the content is identical, including the related events. As a side note, I don't know that people looking for MLB tickets would consider "The Mu Gamma Gamma Chapter Seersucker and Sundress Summer Affair" to be a related event.
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Also, as a reference, here is a similar situation that a similar site faces:
https://seatgeek.com/menudo-tickets/
https://seatgeek.com/memes-tickets/
Could you explain to me what about the code makes these pages different, seeing as the page copy is exactly the same.
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Thanks for the response. Yea I tried myself and it didn't load and then took forever to load. They're doing some work on the back end today so maybe that's why. If you try again later then I'd love to have your input.
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For Moz's duplicate content checker, it's actually looking at code on the page, not just the text visible to the user on the page.
I tried taking a look at your pages, but the site wouldn't load for me.
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Different title tags do not make them not register duplicate content. It helps with it, but the way duplicate content is figured is by how much of the on page text is the same from page to page.
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