Wiki/Knowledge bases

[Cocoonfxmedia]

Hi

A client of mine is creating a knowledge base/wiki for their website. There using there suppliers own knowledge base (basically their a reseller). What would be the best practice with regards to duplicate content.   Would it be best to make all the pages "no follow"? and block the pages by the robot.txt?

[TomRayner]

If the pages will be exact duplicates, you could do either of the options you've given above, or you could use a canonical tag and point it to the original page.

My person preference would be to add a noindex tag on the head tag of the code, so it would be:

Of course, this means the page won't be indexed which is a shame as a knowledge base can be a great way of pulling in long-tail keyword traffic.  If you ever wanted to rank it, however, the content would need to be made unique.

Hope this helps.

[Cocoonfxmedia]

Hi Tom

Yes that makes sense, think the robot  content noindex,nofollow would be the best solution.