Duplicate Content That Isn't Duplicated

[e3creative]

In Moz, I am receiving multiple messages saying that there is duplicate page content on my website. For example, these pages are being highlighted as duplicated:

https://www.ohpopsi.com/photo-wallpaper/made-to-measure/pop-art-graffiti/farm-with-barn-and-animals-wall-mural-3824

and

https://www.ohpopsi.com/photo-wallpaper/made-to-measure/animals-wildlife/little-elephants-garden-seamless-pattern-wall-mural-3614.

As you can see, both pages are different products, therefore I can't apply a 301 redirect or canonical tag. What do you suggest?

[LoganRay]

Hi Luke,

Martijn is correct, the source code of these pages is too similar. Moz's threshold for marking content as duplicate is 90%, meaning if the source code of any 2 pages is 90% the same, they flag it.

I also agree that there are better things you can spend your time on. But if you do want to address it, there are a few things you can do:

1. Custom review at the product level - user generated content is awesome because it helps build confidence for other users, but in this case, it also creates unique content
2. Q&A section - See Amazon for an example, the benefits are the same as above
3. Write unique product descriptions for each product - this one is obviously the most time consuming, but is also pretty simple compared to the others.

[Alick300]

Hi,

If you search in google these "If you have a specific project in mind, you’ve come to the right place; with a wide range of images to choose from, no job is too big or small for ohpopsi. To order, simply choose your favourite design from the selection below and enter your wall dimensions." with quotes several urls will appear in SERPS but they are different and I think there is no need to worry about this.

Wait for moz staff reply

Thanks

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Jake,

What Moz is probably noticing on these pages is that the overlap of your codebase is quite big. Probably above a certain threshold. That's why they're warning that the content of the page might be a bit too similar. If you have the opportunity to change that around that would always help, for both Moz and search engines. But if the 'actual' content is really different on these pages as it seems like I wouldn't worry too much about it and focus on other issues that are having a bigger impact on your SEO.

Martijn.