Duplicate pages

[ToonyWoony]

Hi

Can anyone tell me why SEO MOZ thinks these paes are duplicates when they're clearly not?

Thanks very much

Kate

http://www.katetooncopywriter.com.au/how-to-be-a-freelance-copywriter/picture-1-58/

http://www.katetooncopywriter.com.au/portfolio/clients/other/

http://www.katetooncopywriter.com.au/portfolio/clients/travel/

http://www.katetooncopywriter.com.au/webservices/what-i-do/blog-copywriter/

[riplash]

The problem is that there is little to no content on these pages, aside from the the "boilerplate" stuff - header, navigation, sidebar, footer, etc - which appears on every page.

What that means to a crawler/bot, is that these pages look very similar. If there aren't plenty of unique words on the page, there's always a chance that the page will look like duplicate or thin content.

How many words is unique? Hard to say, but a general rule of thumb has always been 150-200 words for me. It's possible that the number could vary depending on the ratio of boilerplate to unique text, though these days Google is pretty good at distinguishing boilerplate from content.

The issue is that thin content can be a problem in a post-Panda world, although on the scale you're looking at Google can most likely deal with it just fine.. For more info, to help you make an informed judgement,  I recommend this [great 'thin content' article from Dr Pete](. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/fat-pandas-and-thin-content).

Could you add some descriptive text on the client directory pages, and redirect the empty articles somewhere else (or fill them with content?) Another option for the client pages could be to consolidate (and redirect) all of the categories into one client page - maybe using Javascript to hide/show each category on request, to keep things tidy.