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If you look at the keyword 'Vintage Chanel,' the term appears very frequently on the page. You have to remember to see the page as crawlers see it. View the source and do a search and find on that keyword. Or examine it in Webmaster Tools. You'll find that it appears very frequently, in copy as well as in alt text, titles, urls, etc. Hope that helps!

I think (haven't tested) you would just do hour containing 12

That would include in the segment any visits within that hour.

Sorry, I meant David the OP.

Hi David, although the article discusses application to PPC, I don't believe the report is PPC/adwords based. I've set it  up on my analytics and it segments all visitors.

This  site has a good custom report to do dayparting (which I believe is what you're asking for.)

http://www.katemorris.com/2009/12/ppc-tip-dayparting-using-google-analytics.html

Thanks for the helpful response, Oleg.

So far in examination, pretty much all of our ranking terms point towards a category page, whose URL would not change. While some of our product pages are indexed, very few seem to come up in SERPs. I still worry there might be a ranking drop on the overall site.

We do ok in G for some terms, though not nearly as well as I'd like. I guess fixing other major issues should be a priority.

I think we'll look at using canonical tags and 301's to correct the problem, at least in the short term.

I've recently been hired as the web developer for a company with an existing web site. Their web architecture includes category names in product urls, and of course we have many products in multiple categories thus generating duplicate content.

According to the SEOMoz Site Crawl, we have roughly 1600 pages of duplicate content, I expect primarily from this issue. This is out of roughly 3600 pages crawled.

My questions are:

1. Fixing this for the long term will obviously mean restructuring the URLs for the site. Is this worthwhile and what will the ramifications be of performing such a move?

2. How can I determine the level and extent of the effects of this duplicated content?

3. Is it possible the best course of action is to do nothing?

The site has many, many other issues, and I'm not sure how highly to prioritize this problem. In addition, the IT man is highly doubtful this is causing an SEO issue, and I'm going to need to be able to back up any action I request. I do feel I will need to strongly justify any possible risks this level of site change could cause.

Thanks in advance, and please let me know if any more information is needed.

If you look at the keyword 'Vintage Chanel,' the term appears very frequently on the page. You have to remember to see the page as crawlers see it. View the source and do a search and find on that keyword. Or examine it in Webmaster Tools. You'll find that it appears very frequently, in copy as well as in alt text, titles, urls, etc. Hope that helps!