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Duplicate URLs

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause

If the duplicate URLs return similar content, they are likely to be deduplicated in search engines.

How do you fix it

Identify if the URLs are created by malformed internal links in which case the links to the URL should be corrected to use single encoding.

What is the positive impact

  • Search engines may index multiple copies of the same page resulting in dilution of authority.
  • Crawling resources may be wasted which could impact the discovery of other URLs
  • Search engines may not select the preferred URL format.

How to fetch the data for this report template

You will need to run a crawl for report template to generate report. When report has been generated and you have crawl id you can fetch data for the report using the following query:

query GetReportStatForCrawl(
$crawlId: ObjectID!
$reportTemplateCode: String!
$after: String
) {
getReportStat(
input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode}
) {
crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) {
nodes {
pageTitle
url
duplicateUrlPrimaryUrl
foundAtUrl
deeprank
level
httpStatusCode
foundInGoogleAnalytics
foundInGoogleSearchConsole
foundInBacklinks
foundInList
foundInLogSummary
foundInWebCrawl
foundInSitemap
}
totalCount
pageInfo {
endCursor
hasNextPage
}
}
}
}

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