18/01/24 Duplicate Content Pages whose complete content appears on other pages Optimization Tips Here you will find a list of pages whose content was also found on other pages of your website (=d uplicate content). Why you should avoid duplicate content: Duplicate content is very problematic from an SEO perspective and should be avoided at all costs. If you have a number of pages with the same content, search engines such as Google have to decide which of these URLs is the most relevant for the keyword in question and should be displayed in the search results. As a result, it may happen that the "wrong" URL is selected. In addition, duplicate URLs can spread positive ranking signals such as backlinks across the different URLs. This can cause the individual pages to rank lower than if these signals were consolidated on one URL. This analysis checks for the following types of duplicate content: This duplicate content check refers to duplicate content within your website, i.e. it does not analyze whether the content is used on any other website in the world wide web. The following types of duplicate content can be detected: Page duplicates: The content of one page is identical to the content of another page. In these cases, the URLs are labelled "duplicate". This does not require a 100% match of the pages, but only of their body text. There may be differences in other elements such as the page title. Included pages: The content of page A is fully contained within the content of page B, but page B also contains additional content. This is indicated by the label "Included" next to the URL of the included page. How to fix these problems: Duplicate content is usually a technical problem or a problem with your content management. It is unlikely that you have deliberately written the same text twice. In order to fix the problem, you will first need to find out what is causing the duplicate URLs. The most common causes of duplicate pages are: Your pages can be accessed both with and without the "www." in the URL. From a technical point of view, this creates duplicate content, as the same content can be found under two URLs. You can solve this problem by setting up a site-wide 301 redirect to the preferred URL variant. You can find more information on how to do this in our wiki. URL parameters, e.g. for sorting products on shop category pages. These change the order of the products displayed. However, the content of the pages remains the same. You can solve this problem by adding a canonical tag to the URL variants with parameters. This tag should link to the "original" variant without parameters. Categories or tags are not distinctive enough and return the same results. In order to avoid this, you should only use tags and categories that are clearly differentiated in terms of content and that have as little overlap as possible. Common causes of included pages: Blogs display the full article content on category pages or the homepage. In this case, you should only use a very short snippet of the text content as the preview text. Other causes of duplicate content, solutions, and ways to avoid can be foundi n our wiki. # URL Duplicate content URLs 1. https://mestikon.digital/ Duplicate https://mestikon.digital/homepage-overlay-menu/ 2. https://mestikon.digital/news/ Duplicate https://mestikon.digital/2023/10/ Duplicate https://mestikon.digital/category/uncategorized/ Page 53 of 55