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Mmmm this is becoming more problematic by the minute, will need to implement robot.txt before removing the urls.

And there was me thinking this seo stuff would be easy.

or go somewhere else lol, have been considering buying invisionpower forum for a while, this might be the final push I needed.

Is there a way of mass deleting pages from the index in webmaster tools, i.e. all links that contain edit, quote and new ect?

is a paid forum service, but they give you the ability to add code snippets in the head.

Hi Leonie,

thanks for taking the time to answer

Not sure if that will work, there is only one head (hope that makes sense). Forums work pretty much the same as content management systems. I have the ability to change what's contained in the head, but adding rel="canonical" will have the same effect on all pages, even the duplicate one (I think).

Is there a way of removing all pages from the index (in webmaster tools) that contain the word edit, or quote or new? Kind of like using a wild card?

HI everyone,

great to be here, absolutely loving everything, please go easy on me I'm quite a noob when it comes to seo, but hopefully my question isn't too basic.

After running the initial checks on my websites, I found there are 7,646 duplicate pages? Some are easy fixes but the majority are not, being forum pages, the edit, quote and new post links are coming up as duplicates of the main post?

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Best Lee