Best way to prevent "Duplicate Content" for different links

[Shanil123]

We are working on job portal domain. As we know jobs going to be expired day by day. I will give you my question by example.

Example: I have two links [mysite.com/Jobs-In-Cincinnati and mysite.com/Jobs-In-Atlanta]. Before month I had too many jobs on both the links. Jobs were expired one by one after two/three months I don't have any jobs on both the links.So I got same page content on both the links like "please refine search". Google consider these two pages as duplicate content issue.

Will you please suggest which is the best way to come out from it?

Thanks in advance.

[Letty]

To overcome that Google see both pages as duplicated content when empty, i would spend time on writting information about working in Cincinnati and a different piece about working in Atlanta.

I'm not from Amerika, I have no idea what the difference between these to cities are, do they have cinema's / dinners / lunch rooms for after and during work. Do they have 4 seasons or not. So make unique content for each page, by adding different jobs they will even have new content every 2/3 months (google likes), but if all jobs are gone they are still different. It will be some work in the beginning, but help you in the end.

[MikeGeorge]

You mean MOZ.com considers it duplicate content, right?

Duplicate content, as in having pages with duplicate content will cause you a "ding" in your rankings-- but mostly when it's duplicated from domain-to-domain. I have never seen evidence of duplicate content on the same website, harming a website, no matter what Google says about canonical links. (I still think you should use canonical links.)

But assuming that having some duplicate content on your site is really very harmful...

Google knows the difference between a page that is actually duplicate content and plain old blank pages. MOZ may consider blank pages duplicate, but MOZ isn't nearly as sophisticated as Google.

I wouldn't sweat it myself.