Javascript tabbed navigation and duplicate content

[Total-Design-Shop]

I'm working on a site that has four primary navigation links and under each is a tabbed navigation system for second tier items. The primary link page loads content for all tabs which are javascript controlled. Users will click the primary navigation item "Our Difference" (http://www.holidaytreefarm.com/content.cfm/Our-Difference) and have several options with each tabs content in separate sections.

Each second tier tab is also available via sitemap/direct link (ie http://www.holidaytreefarm.com/content.cfm/Our-Difference/Tree-Logistics) without the js navigation so the content on this page is specific to the tab, not all tabs.

In this scenario, will there be duplicate content issues? And, what is the best way to remedy this?

Thanks for your help!

[Meriance]

Hi,

Your navigation style can cause an issue, but you should definitly look at (rel="canonical") if you have a couple of page which could be a real duplicate content issue.

See some document from moz :

http://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization

Hope it help,

Fred

[MichaelC-15022]

Greetings from Portland

The way it's built in the HTML looks good to me right now--this will give you a page with a high content density (and nice rich content too, with those videos).

But remove the other direct links to the other tabs, e.g. tree-logistics....that WILL cause you to have a duplicate content problem.  I would 301 redirect those other pages to the main page, after removing the other links.

Oh, and get those videos out of YouTube and put them on Wistia, and then embed them, and use Wistia's generated video sitemap.  You'll then stand a chance of getting a video snippet for some of your search results, which is great for click through rate :-).

See Sir Phil's treatise on video SEO here.  Phil's The Guy when it comes to video SEO.

[Total-Design-Shop]

Thanks for the responses!