Duplicat page content issue I don't know how to solve

[JAARON]

I've got a few pages (click here to see the fist on with the others as side bar links). They are all thumbnail pages of different products. The tiles are pretty different but the page content is virtually the same for all of them as is the meta description tag. I'm getting error's on the SEOmoz crawl for those pages. I know the meta tag shouldn't be a problem in SEO but is the content of the page going to cause me issues? Are the error messages from SEOmoz a result of the page content or the meta description? The pages are very similar but they are different enough that I want to separate them onto different pages. There would be too many links on that single page as well if all the thumbs where on the same page. Should I just ignore the error messages?

[GrouchyKids]

Hi Joshua,

I'm assuming that  you are not trying to optomise for terms such as "Sapele Countertops", if you are then obviosly you need content.

If not then there are ways of housing all of this content on one page using Jquery Sliders, the imagery/text would be hidden until a user interacts with the page.  This would be perfectly permissable from an SEO point of view and better for the end user.

Hope this helps.

Justin

[JAARON]

It's not that I don't want to rank for that but I've focused most of my effort on the individual pages the thumbs point to. I was going to add some content about the individual wood's to the gallery pages but just haven't done it yet.

Where can I learn more about the Jquery Sliders stuff? If I added it would the page load quickly or would it call up all the thumbs on one page even though they may not be visible?

Thanks,

Josh

[GrouchyKids]

Hi Joshua,

Written in haste...

Firstly if you are going to add unique content to each of the pages that makes them each a best in class page for the terms that you are targetting then the dup issue will be resolved (assuming that you optomise each of the pages correctly).

Content about the individual woods, doesn't sound good enough to answer the queastions a searcher might have if they were searching for "Sapele Countertops".

In terms of Jquery, it sounds like you need to figure out what you are trying to achive in the first instance.

let me know the following and I will try to help further:

Have you any evidence that these terms are searched for?

Do you have any idea of keyword difficulty http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty for these terms?

Depending on what your trying to achieve you have loads of options.

Hope this helps.

Justin