Duplicate Pages Different Content

[TP_Marketing]

Will duplicate pages different content hurt rankings/seo

E-commerce Site is plugin style with WYSIWYG editor allowing for full customization, all pages are setup with basic default content.

Ive created custom pages with content/keywords to begin seo on them

I have two pages

www.domain.com/sports/hockey and www.domain.com/nhl-tickets

The first url is default, with a single H1tag, + Default Meta+Title tags, the second is the content rich page, and structured properly,  both of which show up on the site, should I block the first url from displaying at all?

The reason I am asking is because ive also setup breadcrumb links, which makes all of these category url's accessible on the site, I cannot edit breadcrumb links, we can either have them there or remove them.

Thank you Very Much!!

[irvingw]

Maybe I misunderstand the question, but you should not have duplicate pages on the site and you should block the URL without any value add. Google will penalize the site if it finds a significant percentage of pages that it deems low quality.

[TP_Marketing]

Hello,

They are not duplicate pages, ive just created custom pages that are content rich, they site is a type of plugin setup. So one page is under www.domain.com/sports/hockey and www.domain.com/nhl-tickets the 2nd is more targeted more towards what we are trying to rank for. the first page ONLY has a title and thats it. Would you still recommend blocking it? The only issue I run into is breadcrumb links and our sub-categories.

Thanks

[irvingw]

Just a title on the page - what is the value of that page to a user - this is ultimate spam and should be blocked

Hope this helps you out! and if it does please mark answered