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Low budget just means you have to put the time in yourself.  Good content takes time to create, and if you can't outsource it, then you're stuck with doing it on your lunch breaks

I have different meta content since a long time still showing as a duplicate and on just looking at the body content it is identical. Is there any quick way I can manually add something to the robots file to take the duplicates away? Canonical is not working for me as it just points to the same url - not the MAIN one you want. So there is nothing as good as yoast for joomla, they should make that and make a lot of money! OOTB joomla is poor at seo if you dont know how to make menus in joomla your site can have massive issues. Without a tool like MOZ you may never know why your quality content can't rank - gee thanks joomla

Does it rank for anything worthwhile? Does it have any legitimate / valueable links pointing to it? If the answer is no to both of those questions, just delete the page and recreate it at a new URL and request a removal of the old URL from Google's index (and obviously don't 301 redirect it).

Thanks for the answer, it will take some time but i believe i can remove those links. I cant believe that a link at the footer of my clients website "Design by.." would be such a problem. Of course is combination of reasons in my case, as other websites of competitors have thousands of these links and haven't been penaltize. So do you suggest that i shall remove those links and submit a reconsideration? Or remove them build some better links and content and wait a few more weeks if something change? Does anyone have an idea how much time these penalties last? Thanks.