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we are a local based business and we only have one physical property but we service a 15 mile radius (people within a 15 mile radius will use our services) when it comes to keyword tracking and monitoring should we just be looking at the 3 main local towns or should we go out to the villages around our area too? at what level shall we be micro tracking? do we go to such a micro level for tracking keywords for all the villages which creates a lot of keywords for the locations? what is the best approach?

We are a UK based company who sell a have a holiday product mainly to the UK and the US markets. We are just reworking the website and hit the wall on whether we should be writing in British English or US English or do we just do both?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks for this Chris.

One other thing, how then do I block this from showing up in my MOZ crawl, which is giving me 16,9k crawl issues and also how do i then work out what the other crawl issues are that are mixed up in this huge report?

Thanks again Dirk. I like your direct and knowledgeable responses. I have sent a Linkedin connection!!

Many thanks,

Sarah

hello Dirk, thank you for that great answer, we have since been doing a bit more digging of our own and before we go back to the web developer we want to check what should be happening with the links the we are finding duplicated as we are seeing that the issues relating to Duplicate Pages are coming from links from the login page which shows information about where the user was redirected from.

For example, if the visitor is not logged on and wishes to wish-list an item, they will be redirected to the login page, with the item code and intended action in the url; which can then continue on to the desired page once logged on.

The MOZ crawler is seeing these pages as having Duplicated Content whilst they are all the same apart from a piece of information in the URL. Should we be blocking these duplications? Are they a risk to us? What should we be doing?

I have also added this as a new question - I am quite new to this community thing so wasn't sure which was the best way to ask the question.

Many thanks again,

Sarah

This is a follow on to an earlier question which was well answered by Dirk Ceuppens regarding abnormal crawl issues. We are seeing that the issues relating to Duplicate Pages are coming from links from the login page which shows information about where the user was redirected from.

For example, if the visitor is not logged on and wishes to wish-list an item, they will be redirected to the login page, with the item code and intended action in the url; which can then continue on to the desired page once logged on.

The MOZ crawler is seeing these pages as having Duplicated Content whilst they are all the same apart from a piece of information in the URL. Should we be blocking these duplications? Are they a risk to us? What should we be doing?

Many thanks,

Sarah

I have been asked to look at a site for a friend and was more than surprised to see 16,9k crawl issues appear in the dashboard... of this 6,238 are duplicate page content and 5878 are duplicated page titles.

What on earth is going on? I have spoken to the web developer as it appears there is a dev site somewhere and this is his response

[Can I stress that Google determines which site was in the index first and then removes other sites it sees as having duplicate content.  Our dev sites appearing in the search index would not affect your ranking due to duplicate content as Google would see your site as the first site with the content]

As I cannot make contact with him, I am scratching my head, surely a dev site should be no-indexed, it sounds as though he is saying that its ok because Google will take the main site as the first site with the content...

Very confused! Help need MOZ community.

Manythanks,

Sarah

Thanks so much Miriam, your posts are always so informative and helpful. This is all really clear now and I know what needs doing. Thank you again.

Hi Miriam,

As always, very useful and informative response. Can you explain what you mean by

3. Review inequalities

4. Citation volume inequalities or citation newness

What, in business do you consider to be a Citation and what a Review - I am asking from a UK market and finding it difficult to differentiate between the two.

Many thanks

Thank you Martijn, should I also keep national for the main keywords even though we dont want to attract national traffic?