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    • khi5
      khi5 last edited by

      I have a real estate site with MLS data (real estate listings shared across the Internet by Realtors, which means data exist across the Internet already). Important pages are the "MLS result pages" - the pages showing thumbnail pictures of all properties for sale in a given region or neighborhood. 1 MLS result page may be for a region and another for a neighborhood within the region:
      example.com/region-name and example.com/region-name/neighborhood-name
      So all data on the neighborhood page will be 100% data from the region URL.

      Question: would it make sense to "NoIndex" such neighborhood page, since it would reduce nr of non-unique pages on my site and also reduce amount of data which could be seen as duplicate data? Will my region page have a good chance of ranking better if I "NoIndex" the neighborhood page? OR, is Google so advanced they know Realtors share MLS data and worst case simple give such pages very low value, but will NOT impact ranking of other pages on a website?

      I am aware I can work on making these MLS result pages more unique etc, but that isn't what my above question is about. thank you.

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      • MoosaHemani
        MoosaHemani last edited by

        So you exactly have an idea that you can work around with the MLS pages to make them more unique which in my opinion is the ideal choice so let’s move to the real question.

        I don’t think no-follow is a bad option but if I would be at your places I would have used rel canonical instead of no follow.

        Rel canonical simply tells search engine out of the two identical (or almost identical) page which one is the preferred version of the URL.

        Hope this helps!

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        • khi5
          khi5 last edited by

          rel=canonical may be difficult because each page has several pages, like:
          example.com/region-name, example.com/region-name-2, example.com/region-name-3 etc
          example.com/region-name/neighborhood-name, example.com/region-name/neighborhood-name-2 etc

          I do NOT have a "view all" page. Page 3 on the neighborhood page may include 30% of data found on page 3 of region page etc.

          So what to be done?

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          • khi5
            khi5 @MoosaHemani last edited by

            besides my comment below the other issue I am facing is that I have several neighborhoods I would like to rank for within a region. Does this mean best idea is to get rid of these neighborhood pages (via noindex or other solution) and just focus on the region, until I am able to add unique content to the neighborhood pages?

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