Member Only Content

[CobraJones95]

I run a wordpress based website that contains a large amount of free content, but also a large amount of content that is only accessed via a paid membership.

After running a SEOmoz campaign for the site, it showed 3600 errors for duplicate page titles and 1900 errors for duplicate page content.

After looking into the errors it became clear that the majority of them were due to the fact that if you clicked on a link to paid content, it would take you to the paid membership sign in page.

So how to I go about fixing these errors? I don't want this to hurt my rankings. Or fix it if it already has.

[ThompsonPaul]

Since you don't care whether your sign-in page ever ranks well, and since the member content behind the paywall will never index/rank anyway, I don't think is a big issue, Jonathan.

If you wanted to, you could "nofollow" the links to the paid content pages and you could set the signup page to "no-index". That would at least signal to the crawlers that the page isn't intended to be a viable content page of the site.

Paul