Duplicated content generated by keywords

[DianaC]

Hello!

I am kind of new to SEO and MOZ, so I really need your help to understand why some of my keywords generate duplicated content. Meaning, in my blog posts I use various SEO keywords. It shows up that in my MOZ crawl analysis, I have these keywords listed as duplicates: so two/three different keywords are pointing to the same articles and are considered duplicates?

I really don't understand how it is possible. Did it also happen to you?

I highly appreciate it.

Thank you

[WeAreDigital_BE]

Happy to help!

[DianaC]

Thank you tons, Sander

[WeAreDigital_BE]

Two solutions in my opinion:

1. Hide the keywords and place a canonical URL on the existing tag pages to the main tag,category or blogpost pages

2. Keep the tagging and do the same as in situation one (canonical) :D. Just make sure you don't have more URL's with the same article.

Hope you can sort it out.
Sander

[DianaC]

Yes, that's right, this is the case.

Even if I hid the keywords, will they still create URLs, generating duplicate content?

Thank you, Sander, I highly appreciate your reply

[WeAreDigital_BE]

Is it the case that all three keywords are directing to a different URL (but same article)?

I've had some clients working with blogs and with 'tag' pages. They allocate tags (in your case keywords?) to an article. These tags are also accessible on a URL. All these URL's contain the same article.

e.g. www.example.com/blog/tag/keyword

This causes duplicate content. If this is the case, I would just work with category pages or with canonical URL's.

Sander