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I've suggested using robots.txt in the other question you've posted and I think the same applies here. Do any non-duplicate pages appear in the /embed/ or /email/ directories?

This is a perfect opportunity to use the canonical tag: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394 so that only one of these pages is indexed.

Thanks for the tip!

You do lose a little juice with each redirect, so you don't want to be redirecting the same URL multiple times. The potential problems include slowing down the site as well as increasing chance for errors the more entries you put into your file. There are times when it just can't be helped, and it's much better to have the redirects there than a site with a ton of 404s.

I agree with the other two response - why have 3 sites selling the same product? This problem isn't new though. Many big sites have the same problem where they sell the same product as many of their competitors. You should be fine as long as you make each page different to the others. Amazon got around this by giving users the ability to write reviews of the products, which ensured that each page had unique user generated content on the pages and was therefore useful for Google. If you can, stick to one site.

This will not be problem from the penalty point of view - the question is if the page value. What is new or unique about the page that is also about the same topic? On another note observe that Google monitors and warns about duplicate TITLE and META description tags in Google Webmaster Tools. H tag duplicates are not included. That would have to indicate that H tag is not as important to them.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-link-directory-best-practices This blog post has some link directory best practices as well.

Thanks for your prompt reply - it pretty much confirmed what I thought. As far as the footprint goes, that's not too much of an issue - we have all the clients listed on our site anyway, so it's no huge drama for people to find this out. Also, we don't work with anyone we would be happy to shout about. Something on the About Us, or possibly the news page for new sites, could be doable. I guess the only thing that caused confusion was the paragraph in the book that implied the authors' experiments showed differing location pages and anchor text throughout the site was treated somewhat nearer linear instead of being ignored.

Hi Keri, that's an interesting idea. I thought about it: Right now, I don't feel ready to write a post like that. I'll keep it in mind though: If I have to move a site again I will prepare it better, do more detailed monitoring and if that works, I'll have material to write a post that's worth reading Thank you! Timon

Thanks for the follow-up ... if it weren't for phrases like The page displayed to all users who visit from Google must be identical to the content that is shown to Googlebot. I'd be quite comfortable with that ... in the meantime, however, I might try some pdf2html conversion tools to see if there is a viable way to present PDF-information on a HTML page and block the PDF link for robots. Regards, Gert

Well you could limit things with robots.txt instead, but that's a bit of a blanket block. It would probably be better than nofollow though. Using noindex and nofollow in conjunction would also likely be better than just nofollow by itself. It's a long way from the elegance and usefulness of rel="canonical" but it is easier.

I get 73 by putting it into http://www.yellowpipe.com/yis/tools/lynx/lynx_viewer.php This attempts to replicate what search engines see when they visit your page. I get 85 on a manual count (add this links etc) and there's probably a few others that are actually duplicated within the same section (titles and image both clicking to the same place for example). And I get bang on 100 if count the number of href's in your code (include style sheets etc). So I would assume the SEOmoz tool is pretty much right in what it's telling you. However, don't worry too much about having a little over 100 as it's not a hard and fast rule. Check this video out from Matt Cutts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6g5hoBYlf0

Thanks ... now i understand ... There is no wasy way ... ... Perhaps should start my own template company ... Cheers Krish

Hi Candida, The 302 isn't passing any juice. I'm following up on old questions that are still marked unanswered, and wondering if you decided to do anything different here, and if so, how it turned out for you (or if you still have questions). Thanks!

Looks good! Also came across Sendible anyone tried it?