Question about duplicate content within my site

[aprilm-189040]

Hi. New here to SEOmoz and also somewhat new to SEO in general. A friend has asked me to help do some onsite SEO for their company's website. The company uses Drupal Content Management System. They have a couple product pages that contain a tabbed section for features, accessories, etc.

When they built their tabs, they used a Drupal module called Quicktabs, by which each individual tab is created as a separate page and then pulled into the tabs from those pages. So, in essence, you now have instances of repeated content. 1) the page used to create the tab, and 2) the tab that displays on the product page.

My question is, how should I handle the pages that were used to create the tabs? Should I make them NOINDEX?

Thank you for your advice in advance.

[iAnalyst.com]

Can you post some examples of this? You may be able to fix this with canonical tags, see SEOmoz post here

That will give Google one main URL for both pages. Not sure how that works within Drupal interface though

[Red_Mud_Rookie]

Yes, I would no index them, but it depends on how this would affect the way these pages get indexed because you wouldn't want to create orphan pages in the Google index i.e. pages that have no navigation to other parts of the site.

it might be safer to implement the canonical tag in which case you can tell the search engines which version you want them to prioritize.

If you want to send me a link to the site I will happily take a look.

[aprilm-189040]

Hi. So sorry I am just now getting back to this post, we went away for a few days. Thank you so much for offering to take a look at the site. Here is an example of what I am referring to:

Here is a product page. At the bottom, you will notice there are tabs.

http://www.frs-solutions.com/content/comlink_st3g

If you click on 'specifications', you will see information that has been imported from this page:

http://www.frs-solutions.com/content/st3g-tab-3-specs

SO, as you can see, there are 2 instances of the specifications information. 1 in the tabs, and 2 on the imported page.

Hope this makes sense. And thank you again for taking a peek!