Duplicate content - "Same" profile-information

[KasperGJ]

Hi,

I own a casting website with lots of profiles. Some of these profiles only typed in their firstname, email and age, when they registered on the site, and they haven't added more information ever since.

From Crawl Diagnostics, I can see that there is "lots" of these profiles, which looks exactly the same (only showing age and firstname), allthought they are not the same.

I could add which day the profile were created on the site, to maybe avoid these "duplications". The email will always be hidden.

Or, how big an issue is this? Crawl Diagnostics tells me, that there is around 200 of these, and they are "marked" as High Priority.

Any ideas on what to do?

/Kasper

[donsilvernail]

Each profile should have a different URL correct? Then you can add information to your profiles that would always be different or make some field mandatory like last name or address before the profile can be created. Are the profiles supposed to be searchable from search engines? If not no-index them.

[KasperGJ]

Donald, thanks for your quick reply.

Yes, well they have a different url like this www.site.dk/profile.asp?id=number.

Well, actually these profiles, with no data filled out, should'nt be indexed, so I could add a no-index on them.

But, the issue there would be, that whenever a new profile is created, then they would as default be no-index.

Most of the profiles, update their profile with more information right away thou, so the "in-index" would disappear in the HTML code within hours or a day or so.

[donsilvernail]

Are you using a cms?

[KasperGJ]

No, I've programmed the back-end myself.

I know that www.site.com/profile/name would be better thou, but it's not possible at the moment.

[MattRoney]

Curious, Kasper—is it only the mostly-blank profiles that come up as duplicate content? Or do filled out profiles get flagged, too?

[KasperGJ]

Matt > It's only the mostly-blank, profiles that come up.

The "issue" is, that there is some profiles with same name and age, that haven't filled out more information.

[KasperGJ]

So, just continued on SEO and run into this issue I never really "fixed".

Any ideas?

I'm actually thinking of using a "no-follow" or exclude all these profile automatically from Google.

Mostly because, they are not really adding any value.

I mean, my site is a castingsite, and if the profile don't have picture, or a description or anything, then they are pretty much worthless for the site.

What do you guys think?