Website Issues - Duplicate Content
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Hello,
I'm fairly new to using Moz and I logged on this morning to find Issues have been found in one of the websites - 22 High Priority and 44 Medium. I know it's due to duplicate content in the blog, but i can't figure out what is duplicated? I've only recently come on board this website so I don't know if the content has been plagiarised or what?
The link to the site is here: delacyspa.co.uk
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Hi there, you've received some good responses. Did they answer your question? If so, please mark one or more as a "good answer". If not, please let us know where you need clarification. Thanks!
Christy
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Good Morning!
Welcome to the world of Wordpress. It is tough exactly to say where the duplicate content is coming from without looking into your website but from my recent experience the Tag/Category system is extremely good at creating duplicate content. I agree with Benjamin, look at the audit, check the issues and it will tell you where the duplicates exist.
My gut reaction lies as I said, in the Tag/Category system.
Wordpress uses Tag/Category/Author etc. to organize itself and you. It also creates a url to reference that information, which is good and bad. So let's take the author Lindsey as an example. Lets say Lindsey wrote an article called "Hair Did at De Lacy" she put it in the "Hair And Beauty" category as well as the "Blog"
That article will now be published in at least 3 locations depending on exactly how your Wordpress is set up.
- /category/hair-and-beauty/Hair-Did-At-De-Lacy
- /blog/Hair-Did-At-De-Lacy
- /author/lindsey/Hair-Did-At-De-Lacy
- /archives/ etc. etc.
Wordpress is very deceptive in that regard. Now, I was very naive when I first started so I simply didn't understand that the structure would build like that. Below is a video of Matt Cutts talking about tag clouds. In it he also address how he uses categories and tags in general. I personally try and follow those guidelines!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYPX_ZmhLqg
Hope that helps, a little long winded.
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Hey,
Did you try running a crawl report in moz? If you do that it may tell you where the duplicate page content is, then go to that page on your website and re write it. Hope this helps.
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