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Thank you.

Can you also not only check if the visitor is coming via search BUT also keyword used so I can make my notices more specific?

Hello,

Is it possible to know if visitors are arriving at a web page via organic search?

Background:

We have a section of job description pages to explain typical tasks. These have very high bounce rate (some 100%), and I think people are confusing them with actual jobs. For example "stage designer". Many of those keyword we have very high rankings.

I am thinking of having a small notice at the top of those page to say something like "if you are stage designer job, check out our job section".

Thanks

Hi Alan,

Yes, one page, 2 urls (to test which link placement generates more clicks).

How do I place the canonical tag in a CMS driven website? Should we ask the developer to automatically generate canonical tags for pages or perhaps an extra text field to be used when a canonical tags needs to be added?

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the reply and explanation.

There is only one entry in the CMS for the article in question (http://www.creative-choices.co.uk/develop-your-career/article/finding-work-in-the-arts).

The other longer URL (http://www.creative-choices.co.uk/develop-your-career/article/finding-work-in-the-arts?utm_source=Website&utm_medium=Website&utm_content=Finding+work+in+the+arts&utm_campaign=Footer+Links)  just has google analytic tracking appended to it.

Hi Dan,

We are using Expression Engine CMS.

Would you then recommend asking the developer to make an extra field available to capture the canonical url to be used when needed?

Hi there,

I have just noticed that SEOmoz picked up some duplicates links that I would like to resolve but not sure how.

For example, the "Finding work in the arts" article has two links:

• http://www.creative-choices.co.uk/develop-your-career/article/finding-work-in-the-arts
• http://www.creative-choices.co.uk/develop-your-career/article/finding-work-in-the-arts?utm_source=Website&utm_medium=Website&utm_content=Finding+work+in+the+arts&utm_campaign=Footer+Links

Both links can be found on this page http://www.creative-choices.co.uk/industry-news-views/article/what-employers-are-looking-for (see attachment).

Would automatically generated canonical tags by the CMS solve this issue?

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Thanks René,

I updated my earlier reply with a question that i think you missed.

The list isn't growing, which is a good thing but how is it possible for the crawler to pick up the duplicate page urls when the the referrer page has the correct urls?

Hi René,

Thanks for your reply and suggestions. It could well be CMS remembering old urls as this list isn't growing. But is the crawler able to pickup the old urls when the referrer page has the correct urls?

We are on Expression Engine. Have you come across this sort of issue before?

Hi there,

SEOmoz crawler has identified a set of duplicate content that we are struggling to resolve.

For example, the crawler picked up that this page www. creative - choices.co.uk/industry-insight/article/Advice-for-a-freelance-career is a duplicate of this page  www. creative - choices.co.uk/develop-your-career/article/Advice-for-a-freelance-career.

The latter page's content is the original and can be found in the CMS admin area whilst the former page is the duplicate and has no entry in the CMS. So we don't know where to begin if the "duplicate" page doesn't exist in the CMS.

The crawler states that this page www. creative-choices.co.uk/industry-insight/inside/creative-writing is the referrer page. Looking at it, only the original page's link is showing on the referrer page, so how did the crawler get to the duplicate page?