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    • designquotes
      designquotes last edited by

      I have two pages for this example.

      http://www.designquotes.com.au/web-design-quotes/

      http://www.designquotes.com.au/web-design-quotes-melbourne/

      The first URL is an SEO optimised page.

      The second URL is 99% the same, except that it specifies a city. It's intended use of for a PPC campaign.

      The first page has major cities mentioned on the page so I don't have to build a separate page for every city variation.

      The second URL is designed to be city specific for a geographically targeted PPC campaign. The more specific, the higher the conversion rate.

      Should the second page (the PPC landing page) use a canonical URL (since it's 99% the same) or should it be noindex?

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      • David_ODonnell
        David_ODonnell last edited by

        I think you should implement meta noindex to prevent duplicate content issues.

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