Webmaster Tools - Questions about the Content Analysis section

[whatleywah]

Hi Guys,

I have been given access to a few new clients at work and been looking at the Webmaster Tools content analysis report, which is great as it lets me know which pages have duplicate titles or description etc.

One of my sites is a rather large info site and they use a basic CMS tool meaning that a the majority of pages have default META data, but I have now fixed this. Its been over a week since I made the changed, how long will it take Google to update the Contents Analysis section? Any one had any experience using this tool?

Also is there a manual way I can submit to Google that I have made the changes?

Has anyone made changes that Google has made through this tool and seen positive results?

Cheers

[Bewenched]

no there's not a way to notify them of changes.

You need to do something at least about the description meta and title meta tags. you dont want those being duplicates.

[skweb]

I think G has to first index these pages again which can sometimes take weeks depending on your website and number of pages. Most likely the webmaster tools will update almost instantly at that time.

[whatleywah]

Thanks for the info guys,

The site is pretty big, around 75,000 pages. One thing I did notice though is that Webmasters Tools didn't show up all the duplicate titles or descriptions, maybe this is something to do with how the site is indexed or just G being lazy and not showing all the issues?

I have already sorted the duplication issues, just wanted to know if there was anything I could do yo speed up the process and see if there are any more duplicate titles or description.

[William8322]

Also, many times if the pages are in a "news" format(i.e. a CMS like wordpress), the older pages could take a long long time to reindex. Have you submitted a sitemap?

[whatleywah]

William,

Was having issues with the sitemap, had a new one submitted this morning, didn't like the date format, but sorted now.