Why are my Duplicated Pages not being updated?
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I've recently changed a bunch of duplicated pages from our site. I did get a slightly minimized amount of duplicated pages, however, some of the pages that I've already fixed are still unfixed according to MOZ. Whenever I check the back-end of each of these pages, I see that they've already been changed and non of them are the same in terms of Meta Tag Title is concern.
Can anyone provide any suggestions on what I should do to get a more accurate result? Is there a process that I'm missing?
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Moz doesn't check only on the title or other meta tags. You could have an entirely different title and if the page content is the same it will bring up a duplicate content flag.
As an example, on our blog we had duplicate content alerts between categories and tag pages (ie Category page 2 had the same content as tag page 20). Instead of changing the contents of the pages (as it was nearly impossible) we decided to add a meta noindex to the tag pages. All duplicate content issues resolved
Anyway, Moz crawls your page once a week, if you did the changes recently, check the date of the last crawl under your campaign overview.
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Usually it takes a few days to update the report with the changes you have made! If you think that its more than a week and your files are still not updated in that case it is a good idea to email Moz support at [email protected]
hope this helps!
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Hi Ronald,
When did you make these changes. When you change something, it doesn't immediately take effect. It takes a while and the time varies. Be patient and wait.
Hope you will see the changes soon.
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