How to deal with duplicate content

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to RankBot Support!

Duplicate content can negatively impact your website’s search engine rankings and visibility. To deal with duplicate content, you can follow these steps:

1. Identify Duplicate Content: Use tools like Rank Math or Google Search Console to identify any duplicate content on your website. Look for pages or posts that have similar or identical content.

2. Add Canonical URLs: If you find duplicate content, you can add a canonical URL from these duplicate pages, pointing to the original content that you want to index. This helps search engines understand which version of the content should be considered the original. You can learn how to add canonical URLs in our knowledge base article here.

3. Content Audit: Conduct a content audit to identify outdated or low-value pages on your website. You can improve these pages by adding more unique and valuable content. In some cases, it may be appropriate to remove the page altogether, redirect it to a more relevant page, or add a noindex meta tag to tell search engines not to consider it for indexing. You can learn more about content audits and how to improve site quality in our knowledge base article here.

Remember, it’s important to ensure that each page on your website offers a decent amount of unique content to improve its ranking potential.

If you have any further questions or need assistance with specific duplicate content issues on your website, please feel free to reply to this ticket, and a human agent from our support team will be happy to assist you.

Best regards,
RankBot Support

Sources:
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
Why You Shouldn’t Duplicate Posts/Pages » Rank Math
How to Fix “Crawled – Currently Not Indexed” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Why Did My Website Disappear From Google Search? » Rank Math