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content.exact_duplicate
Priority
High
Severity
Warning

What we look for

The text of these pages matches another crawled page word for word.

Why it matters

When pages are identical, search engines pick one to show and filter out the rest, so the copies compete instead of ranking.

How to fix

Keep one version. Send the others to it with a 301 redirect (a permanent forwarding rule), or add a canonical tag (a line in the page's <head> naming the preferred address) to each copy that points at the version you keep.

Seen in a real crawl

From a crawl of Kestrel Bay Digital (the canonical-variants fixture), a test site from Raptor’s fixture suite.

High

2 pages have the same content as other pages

  • /services/x/Same content as /services/y/
  • /services/y/Same content as /services/x/
Paths on http://127.0.0.1:8003raptor 0.3.0, 17 Oct 2026

Open this finding in that crawl’s report

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal
When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: content.exact_duplicate
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "content.exact_duplicate"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=content.exact_duplicate
MCP
raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings {
  "job_id": "...",
  "check_id": "content.exact_duplicate"
}