Squarespace Duplicate Content Issues

[cmjolley]

My site is built through squarespace and when I ran the campaign in SEOmoz...its come up with all these errors saying duplicate content and duplicate page title for my blog portion.

I've heard that canonical tags help with this but with squarespace its hard to add code to page level...only site wide is possible.

Was curious if there's someone experienced in squarespace and SEO out there that can give some suggestions on how to resolve this problem?

thanks

[Kerry619]

I'm having the same question - all these duplicate content issues on the Moz report and no idea what it means or how to fix them - if I have prior blogs in the "related links" column is that counting as duplicate content?

[cmjolley]

Thank You....You're a star!!  Appreciate the help! x

[randfish]

Gotcha - looks like it's just seeing the paginated results as very near duplicates. If possible, you'd want to implement http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html which Google prescribes for paginated listings of results. Whether SquareSpace can do this or not is a question for them/their team. You may want to send a support request.

The good news is that these errors likely aren't causing big pains/problems for the search engines. It's best practice to fix them, of course, and Google may have a slightly easier time crawling and indexing all your stuff properly, but it likely isn't harming traffic actively.

Wish you the best!

[cmjolley]

Sorry for the delay in responding back as I've been under the weather this last week.

Yes in my campaign its saying quite a lot of errors of duplicate page content and duplicate title tags for my blog section.  I've tried to ask for help on the squarespace community and no one has helped me.  I'm a small business owner and my SEO knowledge is purely what I've taught myself so I'm still a newbie.  Don't really understand why its doing this or how to fix it and make all these errors go away.  I've heard of canonical tags but not sure how to do it and I believe SQSP only actually allows code injection not on a page specific basis.  Anyway here's the site:

www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog

When I click on the errors link to explore further, this is what it looks like

Duplicate Page titles:

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Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=10	50	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=11	50	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=12	50	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.om/blog/?currentPage=13	50	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=14	50	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=15	50	14	1

Etc..............

.......

It pulls up the same thing for  duplicate page content:

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Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=10	1	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=11	1	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=12	1	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=13	1	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=14	1	14	1

Scentsy Blog - LDN Wickless Candles

http://www.ldnwicklesscandles.com/blog/?currentPage=15 |

And So on.......

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Anyway....anything you or anyone can do to shed light on what is happening  and how to fix it would be fantastic.

Christine

x

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[randfish]

Hi Christine - sorry for my delay. Can you share your site or some of the pages having this issue? I can take a look and let you know the best path to take.

[cmjolley]

Does anyone have any suggestions with this?  There has to be someone out there who has worked with Squarespace and has heard of this issue.