From previous experience and from what I've read, it is usually in affect within days. At most 2 weeks.
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RE: Google disavow tool ( how long does it take ? )
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RE: Duplicate Content even when Canonical is used
I'm not 100% but perhaps Moz doesn't crawl duplicate pages and their code. It could be more about title tags, meta data etc.
As long as your canonical tags are in place and pointing to the original source, you should be fine.
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RE: Spinning software advice / suggestions
Do not use spinning software. Also SEOmoz community doesn't support use of these tools.
Rewrite the description and that will benefit you more.
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RE: Noticed a lot of duplicate content errors...
Here are some general things you can do to get rid of duplicate content. Albeit it is slightly more complicated in implementation and when to use them.
rel=canonicals - similar content pages
rel=prev, rel=next - pagination
noindex - pages that are irrelevant or useless. empty pages that are very similar could be a time to use this. or pages that you do not want or believe can be an asset from a user. like shopping cart.
301 redirect - to pages that are pretty much the sameThere are many ways to approach duplicate content and depending on your site it will vary. Whether it is a straight forward issue like tags and categories, or if its slightly more complicated in unique parameters that filters a category in a faceted concept.
From your post it seems you have an issue with tags and normally I'd say to noindex tags or canonical them to the proper category. From what I remember /tags/ being indexed is not a good practice.
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RE: SeoMoz reporting 301 redirects I can't find
Use Ayima's chrome extension. It tracks the type of redirect the pages use. It will be hard to tell where and what the redirects are to since we don't have the actual link.
But the redirect extension works pretty well and usually flashes a redirect code when there is a redirect.
Extension: 'Redirect Path 0.6.3'
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RE: Press Releases
If PRweb is working great for you, I'd stick with it. You can try the latter, as it doesn't hurt to try!
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RE: OSE not picking up all internal links?
OSE is not an end all be all for links. They only gather a certain number links and data.
You're already using screaming frog to get this data, so that should be accurate. You can also check Google Webmaster Tools, which has a section called "Internal Links".
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RE: Noticed a lot of duplicate content errors...
Should be immediate on your site.
Moz crawler would take a few crawls probably. Googlebot you can fetch as Google from Webmaster Tools to make sure they crawl it right away.
If you just make the changes and nothing else, you will just be waiting on Google to update it. I'd suggest fetching as Google via WMT and submited all URLs(theres an option there) when fetching.
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RE: I started a Wordpress blog, google indexed it...
This usually happens after 1-2 months and it really depends on the amount of links you have.
SEOmoz usually update Open Site Explorer every month and if we are lucky twice a month.
You can check the calendar here:
https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
The last one was I believe in the last week of December.
Good luck!
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RE: Should I remove these pages from the Google index?
I wouldn't worry too much about it. Google can tell what a sitemap looks like. If it bothers you, you can remove it from WMT. I don't believe you can put meta data that Google follows in an XML file.
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RE: Duplicate content and rel canonicals?
The canonical tags as mentioned by Kingof5 is directional. Google can still do whatever it wants.
Preferably you should canonical the duplicate pages to the original but that may cause one to not be indexed. That still may help as the authority from the other site will be forwarded (theoretically) to your canonical page.
But yes, it is a dream.
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RE: Mobile update: referrer in alternate URL
These are directives for the crawlers, so I assume it will still work.