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    • MickEdwards
      MickEdwards last edited by

      Each product is an item of jewellery based on a letter of the alphabet.  At present all 26 are indexed but as you guess they all share the same description, title and URL (apart from change in letter).

      What I was going to do was set all but one to no-index, recreate new descriptions and revert back to index.

      But then that got me thinking - through stop words will the titles be seen as duplicates:

      letter bracelet

      letter a bracelet

      letter i bracelet

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      • MickEdwards
        MickEdwards last edited by

        ok let me rephrase some of this.

        How will Google view these 3 URLs and subsequent titles in the same format?

        http://www.example.co.uk/bracelet-24kt-gold-vermeil-a.html

        http://www.example.co.uk/bracelet-24kt-gold-vermeil-i.html

        http://www.example.co.uk/bracelet-24kt-gold-vermeil-o.html

        The single characters are excluded from searches unless using "a" etc, but will they be excluded when crawled and be considered duplicate (forgetting content for the moment)?

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        • Everett
          Everett last edited by

          Why don't you choose one (e.g. A) and use the rel canonical tag on the others so the A page benefits from any links going into them? This would take care of your duplicate content and duplicate title tag issues at the same time. While "technically speaking" the "B" page isn't really a non-canonical version of the "A" page, I think the tag would work well in this situation since nearly ALL of the content is duplicated.

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