How do i deal with duplicate content on the same domain?

[indurain]

I'm trying to find out if there's a way we can combat similar content on different pages on the same site, without having to re write the whole lot?

Any ideas?

[SteveOllington]

What do you mean by "similar" content?

[Highland]

There's a meta tag you can place on your duplicate content called canonical. It lets you dictate which of the duplicate content gets indexed. You can find out more info in the link below

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/canonical-url-tag-the-most-important-advancement-in-seo-practices-since-sitemaps

[marcelo-275398]

I would advise applying a canonical as mentioned by Highland or if its easy enough why dont you just re write the content ?

[SteveOllington]

Surely that would depend, it sounds as if it's not actually all dupe if there is simply similar content.

[sferrino]

As Steve stated, "What do you mean by 'similar' content?"

Please make it easier on us and post links to the items in question, there could always be more going on than you're aware of.

[asimahme]

Yea as Highland and Marcelo basically said it, if it's Duplicate content than the only thing you can really do is place a canonical tag, or just rewrite the content.

Now I think from what Steve and I are getting from your question is that, you have "similar" content not the "same" content but "similar" content on your website.  If it's similar content than I would simply try to add more content on one of the pages, or just rewrite it, or re-purpose the article.

Hope that helps