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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 GetReportForCrawl($crawlId: ObjectID!, $reportTemplateCode: String!) {
  getCrawl(id: $crawlId) {
    reportsByCode(
      input: {
        reportTypeCodes: Basic
        reportTemplateCodes: [$reportTemplateCode]
      }
    ) {
      rows {
        nodes {
          ... on CrawlUrls {
            pageTitle
            url
            duplicateUrlPrimaryUrl
            foundAtUrl
            deeprank
            level
            httpStatusCode
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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