SEO and Modal Windows

[Info1234]

Hi all,

My website has a Login and Join Us option on every page in the site. Each Login and Join Us window pops up as a modal window. In other words, the user must interact with it before they are taken somewhere else (whether they close it or fill it in). It has come to my attention that this is being counted as duplicate content. Is there any way around this? It's calling duplicate content on practically the whole website.

Thanks in advance!

[GoodAtMarketing]

Hi Shay, If the content on both pages are vary similar it might get picked up as duplicate content. You can add a conical tag to one of the pages letting the spiders know that these pages are all similar. The other option is to no index the page. Good luck.

[CaseyKluver]

What content is included in the modal windows? It sounds like it's just maybe short snippets and some form fields to login or signup? If that is the case you don't have anything to worry about. Depending on your site structure you should have plenty of other content on your pages to differentiate "page" content from "misc" content.