Duplicate title on Crawl

[smartcow]

Ok, this should hopefully be a simple one. Not sure if this is a Moz crawl issue of redirect issue.

Moz is reporting duplicate title for

www.site.co.uk , site.co.uk and www.site.co.uk/home.aspx

is this a canonical change or a moz setting I need to get this number lower.

[max.favilli]

Mhhh, to google these three domains are totally different entities, so if you have the same content on each page for sure it would be counted as duplicate content. But I can see you do have a 301 redirect to the canonical www, so you should not face that problem.

But you are talking about duplicate title only... In the report, when you see a duplicate title, it should also tell you (in a different column) which other pages are sharing the same title, what is it listing? I would check the redirect for those specific pages.

[TomRayner]

Hi there

Can you access all 3 versions of that page? www.site.co.uk - site.co.uk - www.site.co.uk/home.aspx

If so that is more than just a duplicate title issue - it could be a big duplicate content issue.  I'd highly recommend redirecting other versions to one single version on your site.

The easiest way to do this is through 301 redirections - you can read the Moz guide on that here.  On a related note, this bit of htaccess code will redirect all non-www pages of your site to their www. equivalent:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Now, if you can't redirect for whatever reason, you can use canonical tags.  Perhaps this is what you're already using?  Basically, all 3 versions of the URL should only have 1 canonical tag version, such as:

The code must be in that format and in the tag of your website.  All versions of the page should use the same version of the code.

I hope this helps.