Duplicate page content help

[texmeix]

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[AlanMosley]

Yes thats duplicate content ok.

to you it is an advantageb to have duplicate content for each geo local, but for the uesre and search results it is not. image you havin the top ten results with these pages, what woulld people think of googles results. Of cause google does not want this.

If you use canonical then google will rank that page but not the others. in short its not going to work.

You are better of promoting the one page instead of splitting your efforts.

[texmeix]

Thank you for this feedback Alan! OK, so this is just an open SEO question for discussion for anyone/everyone...if you wanted to correct this problem would you

A) produce a single "master" page that included content relevant to all of the geographical regions that I am trying to target?

Or

B) Do your best to create unique content for each and every page so that they rank well on their own merit for each region?

I am guessing option B is the answer, but want to hear your opinion.

I was just surprised  almost all of these pages were #1 in SERP even though they were considered dupe content because of such a specific long tail query.

So all is good for now, but If google is going to punish me in the end for this, I'd like to work towarpds a long term solution. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

thank you

michael

[AlanMosley]

I would go for A.

As you will want to promote it (backlinks), it is beter to have all your links point to one page rather then 10, splitting your efforts. You could use the locals in the link text to help them rank for geo locals. you could also list all geo locations on page

If you were getting #1 for all the pages io would suggest that they are very low number of searches for that term. Doing as I say above will proabbaly still give you #1 for the same terms.

[landed]

Most of the 1000's of errors in google crawl and seomoz crawl are like this for my site. In my case its just an issue that the url can be built and retrieve the same seeming data no matter what a part of that url is.

I just hope that I dont get penalized for it. Its almost impossible to stop this from happening it seems.

There are not more than 1 page but the crawlers don't see it that way. To date this is my biggest fear.