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I have started doing that.  I started doing that about one month ago.  Google used to rank http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/cl/50/Tires-and-Wheels this page but has changed to the http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/t/44/86/176/742/Dirt-Bike-Tires-All.  We are working on getting some quality links to the page we want to rank too.  Any other thoughts?

We put rel=canonical on it.  Now there are several other reasons that we have way to many pages indexed.  Big project coming soon, I hope!

We are trying to figure out why google is ranking the wrong page for the key word motorcycle tires.  We have a few ideas but are not sure yet.  If you do a search for Motorcycle Tires you will see site on page 2 or top of 3; however, the page will be going to our dirt bike tires page (http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/t/44/86/176/742/Dirt-Bike-Tires-All) not our Motorcycle page (http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/t/49/-/181/750/Motorcycle-Tires-All) any thoughts?

We think we know why but want others opinions too.

How did it turn out?  And Mark have you done much with internal search?

I am looking into this a lot too.  Our company has 1.2 million pages indexed in Google.  That sounds good except that 1.03 M are from our search results pages.  I am advising we do not keep all the search result pages index; the issues is we are making a lot of money off of them.  What did you find worked best for you? what did you decide to do?

just read your article

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world

The Indexation “Cap”

Similarly, there’s no set “cap” to how many pages of a site Google will index. There does seem to be adynamic limit, though, and that limit is relative to the authority of the site. If you fill up your index with useless, duplicate pages, you may push out more important, deeper pages. For example, if you load up on 1000s of internal search results, Google may not index all of your product pages. Many people make the mistake of thinking that more indexed pages is better. I’ve seen too many situations where the opposite was true. All else being equal, bloated indexes dilute your ranking ability.

I liked it thanks!

Just started here about 1 month ago.  We are thinking that it is the search causing this issue.  We should have it fixed in the next few weeks.  For example if you go to http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/search?term=dirt+bikes and then click on the first result. http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/p/43/53/210/1157/-/25928/Dirt-Tricks-KTM-Timing-Chain-Tensioner/dirt+bikes it has the search result as part of the url for tracking.  I am thinking this could be causing hundreds of thousands of urls.  We will turn this into a parametersso they can still track it but google will not index it.  Any thoughts on this, or maybe it is to far off topic.  Thanks for all your input.

of the first pair (ones like these ttp://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/c/43/53/160/Electrical   http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/c/43/72/221/Electrical) around around 15 in each Classification and there are 5 classification so 75.

of the second pair (like this

http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/m/43/53/2/ATV-Parts-KAWASAKI

http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/m/43/72/2/ATV-Accessories-KAWASAKI

)  about 17 per classification so 85.

Third level like (http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/v/43/72/10864/ATV-KAWASAKI/BRUTE-FORCE-300-2013 http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/v/43/53/10864/ATV-KAWASAKI/BRUTE-FORCE-300-2013)  there are about 1100-1300

I agree one URL would be best; however, they said how the system is set up not really possible right now.

There are only two page that are the same and they are the same here on the next leave down too.

http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/m/43/53/2/ATV-Parts-KAWASAKI

http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/m/43/72/2/ATV-Accessories-KAWASAKI

So you think if there are just two page that are the same it is nothing to worry about?  I know adding one or two paragraph of good content not just seo copy to  the http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/c/43/53/160/Electrical   http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/c/43/72/221/Electrical  Having one focus on parts and the other one accessories.  I know that is not my ideal situation but a possibility.  I would rather just have one URL like you suggested.

Thoughts?

Thanks for your input.

On our site we have some similar pages for example in our parts page we have the link to all the electrical parts you can see here http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/c/43/53/160/Electrical  and we have a very similar page going from our accessories page to electrical here http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/c/43/72/221/Electrical  We are thinking about putting rel="canonical" from the accessories electrical page to the parts one.  We would do this for several pages not just this one.

Thoughts???

I have read that one in the past and it seems different that a lot of other ones I have read.  Do you have any other examples like the one the have on seo moz? thanks,

Where did you read that at? I was not aware of that? Is it the same for analytics?

I have read some like http://www.seomoz.org/blog/mission-imposserpble-establishing-clickthrough-rates  This is over a year old now

and http://www.marketingprofs.com/chirp/2012/8504/paid-vs-organic-search-are-ppc-ads-winning-the-google-click-wars-infographic

Please let me know of some other good studies that have been done that show how the CTR continue to go down on commercial terms for most searches cause google is putting in more stuff.