Having duplicate content is the most common major SEO issue on websites, according to recent research from SEMrush.
The report was based on anonymous data collected via SEMrush’s Site Audit tool on 100,000 websites and 450 million pages.
Some 50% of the websites examined had duplicate content.
Other common serious search engine optimization issues include duplicate title tags (present on 35% of sites examined), broken internal links (35%), duplicate meta descriptions (30%), and broken external links (25%).
Check out the infographic for more findings from the report:
About the research: The report was based on anonymous data collected via SEMrush’s Site Audit tool on 100,000 websites and 450 million pages.
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