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Pages with Duplicate Descriptions

All pages with an HTML description tag duplicated with another page included in the crawl.

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

Pages with a duplicated description tag are likely to have the description rejected by Google and a snippet generated instead.

How do you fix it​

This report can be used to identify opportunities to write unique descriptions that may help improve click-through-rates from search engine results pages.

What is the positive impact​

Well crafted and written descriptions can result in higher click-through-rates from search results pages to your website effectively increasing traffic to your website for the same ranking positions.

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
            description
            url
            duplicateDescriptionPrimaryUrl
            foundAtUrl
            duplicateDescriptionCount
            deeprank
            level
            duplicatePage
            duplicateTitle
            duplicateDescription
            duplicateBody
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }

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