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Hi,
I think you may have downloaded the retiring ranking csv which would include the same keyword multiple times as historical rankings. Or you are using a program like OpenOffice in which you need to turn off the "space" delimiter and only use the comma delimiter. My new ranking CSV file is downloading just fine.
Hope it helps,
Don
Hello,
You should be able to see results if you use a proxy server located in the city (area) you are researching. But I imagine there is an easier way nowadays.
This post may help over on SearchEngineLand
Good luck,
Don
Hi plinggtre67,
This should have no direct effect on SEO. The reason is, PHP is server sided script, which is usually outputted as HTML anyway. HTML is what the browser actually reads.
If you are referring to some pages having .html extensions and some having .php, then from user's perspective that may have a slight impact on some users not knowing whats going on, but in general it shouldn't matter. If you would like a consistent look on the page extensions you can use an Apache URL re-write to remove the extensions all together (just like Moz does). You should notice no pages on Moz site have an actual .extension appended to them.
Example Code: @ StackOverflow
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.)$ $1.phpRewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.)$ $1.html
I hope this makes sense and helps,
Don
Hi Saijo,
Absolutely! in fact that is exactly what I was looking for in the Information Box, I wanted to see the source of the definition. When citing a source it feels like it would look better to cite Merriam Webster rather then Google, if that makes any sense. But perhaps Google is aware of that perception and this is an effort to change it.
I know there is a difference between Snippets and the Information Box or I think Google calls it "Knowledge Graph", but when I didn't see a source my wheels started turning. I really like the Snippets as you and EGOL point out, they are extremely helpful and can be a valuable source of traffic.
Thanks guys for your thoughts,
Don
So I just had this thought, Google returns information boxes for certain search terms. Recently I noticed one word searches usually return a definition.
For example if you type in the word "occur" or "happenstance" or "frustration" you get a definition information box. But what I didn't see is a reference to where they are getting or have gotten this information.
Now it could very well be they built their own database of definitions, and if they did great, but here is where it seems a bit grey to me... Did Google hire a team of people to populate the database, or did they just write an algorithm to comb a dictionary website and stick the information in their database. The latter seems more likely.
If that is what happened then Google basically stole the information from somebody to claim it as their own, which makes me worry, if you coin a term, lets say "lumpy stumpy" and it goes mainstream which would entail a lot of marketing, and luck. Would Google just add it to its database and forgo giving you credit for its creation?
From a user perspective I love these information boxes, but just like Google expects us webmasters to do, they should be giving credit where credit is due... don't you think?
I'm not plugged in to the happenings of Google so maybe they bought the rights, or maybe they bought or hold a majority of shares in some definition type company (they have the cash) but it just struck me as odd not seeing a reference to a site. What are your thoughts?
Hi Thomas
Unless I'm mistaken. If you list multiple user agents before a rule all the users agents are subjected to the rule.
So what you have is a list of 3 user agents allowed "anything" disallowed 4 specific things.
In the end the rules apply to all.
Don
Hi Fraser,
The solution is to use a single website with local options. Yes! I know it is exactly what you said the client doesn't want, but then again, the client came to you for your expertise....
Build a national website with localization focus for each product offered. A company with 25+ locations "SHOULD" be ranking nationally for every product!!!!!!!
As for the localization part, if its a franchise or whatever then let the "main" website feed the locals, who should be on their own ranking.
I'd be happy to expand on my thoughts with more details,
Don
Ben,
I doubt that crawlers are going to access the robots.txt file for each request, but they still have to validate any url they find against the list of the blocked ones.
Glad to help,
Don
Hi Bob,
About the nofollow vs blocked. In the end I suppose you have the same results, but in practice it works a little differently. When you nofollow a link it tells the crawler as soon as it encounters the link not to request or follow that link path. When you block it via robots the crawler still attempts to access the url only to find it not accessible.
Imagine if I said go to the parking lot and collect all the loose change in all the unlocked cars. Now imagine how much easier that task would be if all the locked cars had a sign in the window that said "Locked", you could easily ignore the locked cars and go directly to the unlocked ones. Without the sign you would have to physically go check each car to see if it will open.
About link juice, if you have a link, juice will be passed regardless of the type of link. (You used to be able to use nofollow to preserve link juice but no longer). This is bit unfortunate for sites that use search filters because they are such a valuable tool for the users.
Don
Hi Bob,
You can "suggest" a crawl rate to Google by logging into your webmasters tools on Google and adjusting it there.
As for indexing pages.. I looked at your robots and site. It really looks like you need to employ some No Follow on some of your internal linking, specifically on the product page filters, that alone could reduce the total number of URLS that the crawlers even attempts to look at.
Additionally your sitemap http://premium-hookahs.nl/sitemap.xml shows a change frequency of daily, and probably should be broken out between Pages / Images so you end up using two sitemaps one for images and one for pages. You may also want to review what is in there. Using ScreamingFrog (free) the sitemap I made (link) only shows about 100 urls.
Hope it helps,
Don
Hi all,
I'm noticing an issue with Moz thumbs. Last night before bed, I am pretty positive I gave EGOL and Laura a thumbs up for their answers to this question. This morning I noticed there were no thumbs up for their responses. At first I thought maybe I didn't give them a thumbs up, and proceeded to thumb them again. Everything appeared to work, however after returning to the post I noticed my thumbs didn't appear to be recorded.
Has anybody noticed this issue?
Hello,
Laura and EGOL really nailed it as usually they both do!
By using Canonical you have basically told the search engines hey this content all belongs to X.
What I would suggest is use the manufacturers description in conjunction with the sites or owners own description. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using a manufactures description but you have to own it, which means unique content for every client for every product. Amazon for example uses manufacturers descriptions but they also usually add a slew of other things to a page to make it theirs, Manufacture Description / Amazon Description / Technical Information / User Reviews / User Questions / User Images / Shipping Information.
And here is the crux of the matter, people don't want to buy things from companies who know nothing about what they are selling. If a site can't add some sort of information or opinion about what the product is and why it is worth buying, they honestly have no business trying to sell such a product.
Just my thoughts along with the other 2 great answers,
Don
Hi Will,
I'm of 2 minds when it comes to directories. My general advice would be to ignore them all together, unless there are some very industry specific ones that make sense. I say general advice because the vast majority of industries I have researched have only 1 known good directory (Dmoz.org), the rest are at best, relic sites that have basically run their course in usefulness and give little to no value in terms of traffic or link juice. Why? because it is atypical for somebody to use anything other then Google / Yahoo / Bing / Baidu to find anything on the internet.
That being said, I do place some value on directories for some specific industries and lead generation. For example, in my current industry there is a site that has been around since the 90's and many people before the rise of search engine dominance found it as a great resource for finding business to business partnerships. Many of those people who got acclimated to the site are still working today and use it as their go to source for specific project requirements. In other words they have used it for so long and it has worked for so long they never found the need to branch out and rely on search engines. And in all honesty even Google would have a hard time returning pertinent results for lets say a rubber manufacturer who has experience with over molding fda approved buna-n rubber to an aluminum substrate. But the good directory sites can list those sorts of capabilities.
Because this is a public question I had to give both my opinions on directory sites. Again I wouldn't seek them out as any form of link building, but I also wouldn't ignore ones that seem capable of delivering either traffic or leads, I will say with the exception of Dmoz.org any of the good directories sites I have run across are very industry specific and they are certainly not free.
Hope that helps
Don
Hello Bob,
Here is some food for thought. If you disallow a page in Robots.txt, google for example will not crawl that page. That does not however mean they will remove it from the index if it had previously been crawled. It simply treats it as inaccessible and moves on. It will take some time, months before Google finally says, we have no fresh crawls of page x, its time to remove it from the index.
On the other hand if you specifically allow Google to crawl those pages and show a no-index tag on it, Google now has a new directive it can act upon immediately.
So my evaluation of the situation would be to do 1 of 2 things.
1. Remove the disallow from robots and allow Google to crawl the pages again. However, this time use no-index, no-follow tags.
2. Remove the disallow from robots and allow Google to crawl the pages again, but use canonical tags to the main "filter" page to prevent further indexing the specific filter pages.
Which option is best depends on the amount of urls being indexed, a few thousand canonical would be my choice. A few hundred thousand, then no index would make more sense.
Whichever option, you will have to insure Google re-crawls, and then allow them time to re-index appropriately. Not a quick fix, but a fix none the less.
My thoughts and I hope it makes sense,
Don
I should also add that when you look at a company that provides link building services you should have them evaluate your site for content. What I would do is show them a couple so so pages, and a couple real good ones. Allow them to pick which ones they are willing to promote, if they choose the good ones you know you have the right people... my thoughts,
Don
Hi Nicholas,
Moz maintains a list of the top companies they recommend. You know Moz used to be an SEO company all in its own, so those that manage to impress Moz would be well worth a look. Many people who post here, or contribute here are working for or even own some of those companies.
As always ask questions, link building is very merky area if you ask me. You want to find somebody or company that knows your industry and can deliver your content to the right places. That being said, if you're content isn't worth linking to, then no company or person is going to have good long term results.
Link building is an important ranking factor because it is at the core of how Search Engines operate. The more sites linking to a particular page or website the more value it appears to have. With that there are some strong changes to the way search engines treat the value of links, rolled out in the Panda and Penguin updates. Those updates targeted low quality links and sites themselves to eliminate the abuses link builders were using to manipulate sites to the top. And if you think about it that is the way it should be.
Link building is suppose to or should be occurring naturally, when webmaster A really likes what webmaster B has done they should be linking to them. This provides a benefit for both A and B's users. What has happened over the years is people abused the hell out of this mechanic and really pushed some crappy sites into the top rankings. Along with social media sharing the natural way for sites linking to each other has only been complicated. Still the value of link building is still there although much much harder to accomplish. In part because good sites don't want to risk getting penalties by linking to "less popular" sites. This only means if you really want to get those great links, you have to impress the existing sites who may provide them.
Hope this helps,
Don
Hi Kerry,
If you use 301, then the no index no follow rule will never be read. That is because as soon as the page is requested the server redirects, in such case the meta rule tags in the html are never read. So in short I wouldn't worry about it if you're 301'ing.
You should however make sure you update any sitemaps you maybe using and change your internal linking to use the new url opposed to the old. You don't want your site to continue to link to a page that just gets 301 redirected by the server. That is just good practice.
Hope this helps,
Don
Hi Kerry,
My advice is 301. Canonical was originally designed for people who didn't have access to the server to create the 301 rules. Since we have used it for that purpose but also to deal with dynamic urls and url variations like (www.mysite.com/home vs www.mysite.com/home/)
If you are in fact using a new page as better version of the old, then you should 301 it to the old to the new. This will pass all the link juice your previous page has accumulated and your new page will be the one to appear in the index upon Google's next index pass of your site.
Hope that helps,
Don
HI Daniel,
In theory 301 redirecting should pass the link juice directly to your new URL, but if the URL has never been indexed by Google, those 301's may take a period of time to get indexed and reflect. This is really a subject matter, I have heard 301's and site redirects working very quickly (like same day), and other times it has been a couple months. I "feel" like this has a lot to do with the sites original traffic and Google crawl rate. For example when SEOMoz became Moz, they were re-ranking relatively quickly. While sites I have worked on have in fact take several weeks to return to the SERPs.
What that really means is it can take awhile for Google to re-evaluate your new URL's, likely on their next index pass of your site.
It is also very important to note that just because your "old url" ranked in the top 3 does not mean the new URL will rank in the top 3. Google will re-evaluate the new url and place it in the appropriate spot. It does of course consider the link juice that your old URL had, but that does not necessarily mean it will rank the same. There are a lot of factors that go into the way page ranks.
I hope this makes sense and helps,
Don
Hi Jon,
It looks like it is because that "tag" is being explicitly blocked by your Robots.txt file.
REF: http://www.balihaiphoto.com/robots.txt
See Rule(s)
Disallow:/?tag=
Disallow:/&tag=
Removing those rules should allow Moz access.
Hope this helps,
Don
Also a quick point, if you still have your Google search console setup for HTTP, even though you use HTTPS now, I'd suggest looking at what is being reported as indexed in there. That maybe the missing link.
Cordialement,
Don
So I'm not seeing anything blocking crawling on your site which is good. But I did notice that you have at one time used URL types "http" and "https" which leads me to believe you may have recently switched to HTTPS. In such case you should know that it may take Google sometime to adjust. On a technical level, https and http are 2 different domains.
It is highly likely that Google has index the HTTP version of some of these pages which is why your index count maybe lower then normal for the HTTPS version.
I do see you properly 301 redirected these pages and your sitemaps are reflecting the https as well, if again this was a recent change it just looks like its going to take a bit of time for Google to catch up.
This is worth a quick look, https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6073543?hl=en (scroll to the bottom) and see the section "Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS".
I sent you additional info in PM.
Hope this helps,
Don
Hi,
There are several reasons.
If you have recently changed your url structure. IE (went from using www to not, or https or not, or trailing / or not). In these cases Google could have indexed the pages already under the "other" version.
Google could be having a crawling error, like in a robots.txt or lack there of. Improper canonical tags, blocked access, improper redirects, or a manual penalty.
If you would like to post a link (or pm me) I will take a look and see if I can spot a potential problem for you.
Here are a couple links on Google that should help:
Why Pages Drop From Index
Overview Pages Not Being Crawled
Hope this helps,
Don
Hi Snowflake,
You can use the OSE (Open Site Explorer) here on Moz to check the links they found. You can download that report to CSV to easily sort and see if you have a possible negative campaign running against you.
You could also use, Majestic, or SEMRush. to find more links. Just note there is no tool, free or paid that is going to be able to get all the links pointing to your site.
If you don't find a lot of spam links to your site, chances are there isn't somebody trying to target you with a negative campaign.
Hope it helps,
I've seen many people with SNI related issues. I am hoping Moz finds a way to work with it soon.
Hi Jacob,
What the others have said is correct, but let me put some perspective on it.
Why is it that when you didn't know what you were doing your pages ranked better then it does after you gained a little knowledge and made some tweaks? Its because what you likely had was well written info and ideas from the heart. Google is very well equipped at understanding sites that are not perfectly optimized in the SEO department. Sure they won't rank as well as a site that has perfect SEO and well written, but they are likely to rank better then a site that only has one of those things.
Why? This is because Google's goal, and I say this very often, is to return the best site for a query to a user. A site that is well written and interesting with no real attempt at SEO is probably better then a site that has made adjustments to what they want to say in an attempt to impress a search engine. SEO is search engine optimization, not search engine trickery. You should ALWAYS air on the side of caution when making any changes to what you really want to say in hopes that Google will think more of you. Its like picking on the fat kid at school trying to impress the popular guy. It may appear like an easy way to do it, but you only make yourself look bad in the process.
That isn't to say SEO is bad, quite the opposite. By optimizing your site you are putting your best face on the site for the search engine, but that shouldn't come at the expense of your users, who are in fact the most important part.
I hope that makes sense and helps you understand what is going on,
Don
Hi James,
For page load, network, speed test I have used Pingdom.com in the past. They recently went more pay to use but it is a nice set of tools for basic test. There is still some free stuff you can use at tools.pingdom.com
For a quick SEO pass. Man I love ScreamingFrog! You can quickly identify header errors, long titles, descriptions, lack of h1 tags and so much more. When I do general quick audits for trouble shooting problems posted on this board, its my go to.
Hope this helps,
Don
HI Nitin,
Doing a follow up here. So you are worried about a particular section of a page is going to be considered duplicate? If so, then that is of no worry, it is normal for many pages to have the same information when it pertains to the overall intent of the page. What is looked at is the page in whole not a section of it.
If that is not what you mean please give me an example so I can help identify options.
Thanks,
Don
Hello,
The answer is research. I primary use Google's Keyword Tool, but there are other tools out there that I have see many Mozers reference like Majestic's Keyword tool.
The first thing if you're working with an existing page is to know what the page is about, that should focus you to a main keyword or 2. From there you do the research to find the valuable keywords for the content that is going to be created or is already there.
If you're looking at it from a high level trying to ascertain which pages are relevant or need updating I would then suggest start with brainstorming possible keywords. Just think if you were a user what would keywords would you use to find this page? That should generate some keyword ideas; you then take over to a keyword tool and check the popularity, thus the potential traffic.
The process is not usually quick, but it is effective and I highly recommend that while doing the research you document the results. By doing so, if you ever have to go back and say which keywords did we target, and why, you'll have your answer.
I hope this helps,
Don
Hi Nitin,
This is a common issue among Ecommerce sites. The solution is to be creative! I gave an example of how I would go about it, a month ago over on this question. But I also like to analyze how other successful sites overcame the problem.
Take a very similar product like a portable CD player and then head over to Amazon and see how the differentiate them.
Coby Portable CD Player
Memorex Portable CD Player
For all intents and purposes these 2 cd players are pretty much the same, about the same price, includes the same items, and performs the same functions. But each page is unique. Amazon has achieved this by including, what others bought, a small product description, manufacturer description, product shipping details, technical details, questions and answers, similar products, and customer reviews. Many of those features are important for buyers but also lend their selves to self generating content.
I know right out of the gate it maybe difficult to put that much attention to a very inexpensive item, but the key here is to spend the time on the backend creating the features that will have a long term reward. You may not be able to go full Amazon compete mode right away, but taking some steps towards that end will have long term rewards.
When I was dealing with this same issue on our eCommerce site trying to differentiate a Nitrile Size 001 oring and a Neoprene Size 001 oring from each other, I spent about a month and half developing content blocks for material, size, primary uses, material qualities, and measurement cross references. Since then the only thing I have had to do is update prices with the market.
I hope this makes sense and helps,
Don
Hi,
You may also want to check the domain variations. http://penn-criminallawyers.com/ and http://www.penn-criminallawyers.com/
If you look at the www version you will see a spam score of 4/10. You'll need to make sure you set the filter to "this root domain"
It could be that at some point the website used the www but have since switched to no www. There are some inconsistency like that with the tool. Technically "www" and "no www" are 2 different domains, in practicality we use them interchangeably.
Hope this helps,
Don
Hi Netkernz_ag,
It is just good practice to have those types of pages available. While I wouldn't say it is an absolute requirement, it should be something you do for your users. The page you pointed to is a general checklist of things to do, and not to do for your users. Creating a Site Index maybe a bit dated, but I still tend to do them as they are fairly easy to create. (example).
Hope this helps,
Don
Hi Trevor,
In general no you don't lose link juice for reciprocal linking. Why? because the original practice of evaluating the value of a website factored in how many other domains were linking to it. While that is still true today many other things also factor into the ranking now. Had this not been true you would have never seen the rise of "link rings" and "link pools", and ultimately Google penalizing these sites with Panda and Penguin.
The key here is as it always should be, does X site deserve a link from you? Which means, does putting that link on your site give your users any additional value? If the answer is yes, then by all means link to it. On the other side of the coin, that website should have asked the same question about your site, does their users gain any benefit by them linking to you? You should hope the answer is yes.
If both sites benefit from the mutual link, there shouldn't be any problem. If however, as John Cross suggested it becomes a pattern, then you can suffer a penalty.
I hope that helps,
Don
You should also evaluate who at your company has access to passwords. Did you hire any part of this site out?
People who have access to the site could knowingly our unknowingly be the problem.
Hello,
The one thing popular CMS sites have in common is they are primary targets. This is especially true to open source or free systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Oscommerce, this is because the hackers are available to download and review the source code. In addition to this, many people contribute to these projects which provides additional opportunities for security holes.
There are whole websites out there that share techniques to hack these high profile CMS, complete with scripts and how to guides. Its unfortunate, but some people "enjoy" other people's pain.
The one thing you must do when you choose a CMS like this is to continue to upgrade versions and stay on top of the latest security vulnerabilities and fixes. If you hired your build out, you should factor in a continual support package because you will always need to upgrade and patch.
My suggestions is to visit your sites help forums, chances are there are some answers there for you. There are many precautionary things I could suggest but the primary thing you need to do take your site offline, identify the security hole, restore from a backup and patch it.
Good luck,
Don
I noticed MozPoint rank was pretty close to the aggregated rank for everybody in the Top 50 list. But when you look at all 4291 users there is some big differences. I think maybe in June I'll do just a top 1000 or have a minimum point requirement.
HI Stephen,
As somebody who has worked with eCommerce sites with lots of products I can appreciate where you're at and what you've gone through to get there. My next step would be to fill up the site with content that sets you apart from competitors. Really easy advise to give, hard to implement.
What I like to do is take my favorite online shop and compare what I have against them. My goal is figure out what I could do that they aren't doing, or how in general I could compete with them. For me my favorite online shop for just about everything is Amazon (yours maybe different) , then I say why would somebody buy from me instead of Amazon. Since Amazon is my personal favorite site, it removes the bias I may have towards my own shop.
Can I offer better prices or value? Can I offer items they don't sell? Can I offer better support? Can I offer faster or cheaper delivery? Can I show better content? Better reviews? Can I offer a better shopping experience?
With these questions, most sites I come to the conclusion is Amazon has set the bar so high, it is very difficult to compete even if I have a huge budget. In your case, Amazon may have many of the items you sell, so you have to get creative on how you market them and make sure your content is on par with theirs. That means add reviews, add your own personal description of items, your own images, customer images, and make sure you are where your customers are (social media).
I can't tell anybody how to run a business, but I can say that being creative when your up against such big money is the best way to make a name for yourself.
Good luck,
Don
Hi Stephen,
My general advice is yes, finish your page optimization before link building and here is why.
When you start your link building process it is likely that you'll be reaching out to other sites to ask for links or to submit pages. Those sites that you want links from, are likely going to review what they are linking to, as such they are going to grade your site in one way or another. You want to put your best face on those pages. Sites are more likely to link to you if you look good and have the content to warrant a link.
Hope that makes sense, and helps,
Don
Hi Jerome,
I actually thought I responded to this from the office, but I must not have hit submit.
If the goal of these new domains is simply to provide ease of use to the consumer, I suggest you use parameters instead.
Example of using parameters: Recommended if goal is to help users by showing local currency.
yoursite.com is the default (USD)
yorsite.com?cur=EUR (EURO)
yoursite.com?cur=GBP (Pounds)
You would then set up canonical tag on your pages that could accept this parameter to point to the default (point to itself). This would prevent any duplicate problems.
Sub directories make more sense if you're going to localize the domain for specific regions. Like language, currency and locations. Since you're using the same language, and likely not setting up servers / locations in those areas, I feel your best bet would be to use parameters. Most eCommerce Suits offer this in one way or another, and its not particularly hard to code if you are not using a CMS.
My thoughts,
Don
Hello,
Moz does not report this kind of information. You need some code on each page that tracks the users sessions. Google Anaylatics does this, but there are other sites out there that can do it as well.
Hope this helps,
Don
Hi Vick,
To be sure I understand it correctly, the titles look like this
Olive Garden Voucher Codes, Cashback & Discount Codes | ThisSite.com
Walmart Voucher Codes, Cashback & Discount Codes | ThisSite.com
BestBuy Voucher Codes, Cashback & Discount Codes | ThisSite.com
In such case that makes perfect sense to me.
Title 1 would be going for keywords like:
And depending on the [sites name] they could actually have more keyword combos using this method.
Your concern is valid, and this site may have an issue if they were just trying to target broader keywords like "Voucher Codes" & "Discount Codes". Since those keywords have a broader scope, and they are repeated on many pages search engines may have a trouble assigning a certain page to those search terms. However, those keywords while broader may have less search volume then the targeted keywords.
My thoughts,
Don
Hi Dirk,
The point about PPM made me smile, the great thing and the worst thing about data is that it can be viewed so many ways. I really see your point here.
Another thing that didn't quite make sense to be is on the Thumbs % tab. I'm not really sure how somebody could have less MozPoints than thumbs up as you should receive 1 point per thumb. I guess some people could have had some thumbs down which I didn't take into account and actually increased their ranking in this category.
Don
Wow, that is really cool.
I was about to mozzie off to bed and thought I would give Moz one last read and saw this.
I'm glad my little project was enjoyed by others. Big thanks to Peter Nikolow for parsing the data to ensure all active users were aggregated and ranked.
Cheers,
Don
I edited the post to include all active users. I don't see the need to calculate inactive at this time, perhaps if we do it every 6 months or so we can catch those inactives.
Nice work grabbing the data,
Don
Hi Peter, nice work there.
I'll run some formulas on this today and post a new link.
Hi Peter,
If you want to grab all the data, sure I would make a new one with all members.
You can email me at my user name just as it appears @gmail.com
Don
Hi Wolf,
I can add to this.
Wordpress is very well noted for creating duplicate content. It does this in other ways not just categories using archives and tags. It has been awhile since I played around with my Wordpress sites but there plugins that claim to fix this by using just what Dirk suggested, or by using the noindex no follow tag.
Duplicate Content Cure
Yoast SEO
I can not vouch for any plugin as I don't use Wordpress regularly, what you have is a common issue that these plugins claim to address.
I hope this helps,
Don
On December 30th, 2015 I decided to look at the Moz Community Rankings, I find it fun to do for time to time, and I always like to see how close I am to getting that special dinner with Rand I have heard so much about in the past.
One thing I noticed right away is that Moz ranks members just on MozPoints, and not on other factors like, how helpful they tend to be. This means had I joined in a few years earlier, I could be at the top.. or could I be???
Again, it is just something I did for fun, but I decided to look at a few additional factors to get my True MozRank 
By examining just the top 50 active members I added some additional ranking factors and aggregated them to find a true Rank. The ranking factors are..
After that I gave each of the top 50 a rank in each category based on their respective scores. I then totaled the ranks, and assigned a new final rank based on the lowest totals (which means they ranked the best).
Edit (01/18/2016): With the help of Peter Nikolow I aggregated all active users as per this post.
Link to all 4291 active users ranks
For example EGOL category ranks:
Total = 82
Final Rank = 5
His closest competitor RyanKent MozPoint Points rank 2
Total = 73
Final Rank = 2
Well it was a fun experiment for me, a couple people are out of place in the rankings based on other factors but for the most part MozPoints are pretty accurate.
You can view the spread sheet on Google Docs and play around with the data as you wish.
Don
EDIT: After looking at the document again I noticed an error with rank assignments I have since fixed it.
Edit (01/18/2016): With the help of Peter Nikolow I aggregated all active users as per this post. Link to all 4291 active users ranks
Thank you everybody for all the private messages, and those who choose to post here. I will be reaching out to 2 people today and notifying the others of my choice via private messages.
I think it is really great that this community is so invested in the positive intents of other members to be willing to lend their time. I really love this community. I am very grateful for the response I had in just 24 hours.
Please check your private messages today for more details,
Don
Hi Ruchi,
Can you provide an example of a page and the expected page?
There could be a number of reasons why this is happening, for anybody to get specific we need to see what we are working with.
Thank you,
Don