How to resolve when it is saying duplicate content but the content is not duplicate?
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Especially since it is our landing page for our blog with multiple excerpt text i.e. growpath.com/resources/
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You need to understand that today there are roughly millions of articles, blogs, and web copies already published for content marketing. Many online writers have already written about information that you are thinking about writing.
Checkout the plagiarism level via a tool. It is best to use a premium level tool and see if the content is around 80% to 85% unique and has a rate of 15% plagiarism. Lower than 70% uniqueness can be troubling. So, try and rephrase some words but to not make things too much complicated.
In best case scenario, try to choose topics that are unique, it all depends on your creativity level. Good luck!
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I have encountered this in the past. If you KNOW it is not duplicate, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Having said that, in my cases, I just re-wrote the content (very minor changes) and the duplicate content warning went away - all good. Just my 2 cents. Best of luck
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Hi - Thanks for reaching out.
If you think Moz is reporting something incorrectly, the best thing to do is reach out to our Support Team at help@moz.com with specific examples, so we can take a look.
thanks!
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