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Duplicate Content (Site)
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by Dan Leibson
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@danleibson
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localseoguide.com
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CheckHow to do itWhat to do if there is a problemPriority (0-2)
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Has the site lost organic search traffic at a time that corresponds with a Google Panda update?Check using Panguin or by comparing SEMrush’s Organic Positions report with Moz’s Algorithm Change History.Double down on your audit of duplicate/low quality content and get it resolved
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Are there any duplicate <title> tags?This data can be found by navigating to Search Appearence -> Title Tag in Google Webmaster Tools.Turn the duplicate <title> tags into unique <title> tags
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Are there any duplicate meta descriptions?This data can be found by navigating to Search Appearance -> Meta Description in Google Webmaster Tools.Turn the duplicate meta descriptions into unique meta descriptions tags
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Is a development, or other duplicate sub-domain indexed?Perform a site:domain.com -www search.If it's a development domain apply noindex tags to all pages. After it is crawled block it in robots.txt
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Is there 3rd party duplicate content?Run your money/high traffic traffic pages through copyscape.comIf you control the 3rd party content, change it. Otherwise reach out to webmasters to remove the content
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Are there multiple versions of pages e.g. http & https, trailing / and non-trailing slash, www and non-www etc? If so, are they properly canonicalized?
Manually check by performing a site:domain.com search301 redirect or canonicalize them
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