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How could duplicate content be valuable and why question no indexing it?

My new client has a clever african safari route builder that you can use to plan your safari. The result is 100's of pages that have different routes. Each page inevitably has overlapping content / destination descriptions. see link examples.

To the point - I think it is foolish to noindex something like this. But is Google's algo sophisticated enough to not get triggered by something like this?

http://isafari.nathab.com/routes/ultimate-tanzania-kenya-uganda-safari-july-november 
http://isafari.nathab.com/routes/ultimate-tanzania-kenya-uganda-safari-december-june

My programmer showed me this demo website where all the navigation and content is embedded within javascript: http://sailsjs.org/#!

Google site search returned 51 in results, all pages pretty much unique Title Tags and Meta Descriptions

Bing site search returned 24 results with pretty much identical Title Tags and Meta Descriptions

Matt Cutts said it's fine but to test first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mibrj2bOFCU

Has anyone seen any reason to avoid this web convention?

My gut is to avoid this approach with the main drawback I see is that websites like this won't do well on search engines other than Google that have less sophisticated algorithms.

thoughts?

I had a little issue earlier where I found my client's mobile version of their website showing up in the SERPs on my desktop. I asked my programmer to get rid of it.

Programmer put a nofollow tag on the link to the mobile site (from the regular website). He also put a noIndex across the whole mobile version of the website.

So to double check, I should probably get rid of that noindex on the mobile website right? I think the nofollow should be enough... thoughts?

thanks!

It would make sense that the same idea behind Authorship for the written word would eventually be applied to video content.

My client asks me a valid question:

"Can we tie Authorship to YouTube?"

My response was: "Great Question. Authorship shows a thumbnail of your headshot in the SERPs. Regarding universal search results, YouTube videos are displayed with a thumbnail of the video.

What may be of benefit here is attributing authorship to a video in order to build AuthorRank. I think what could be done to signal Google would be to link with the rel=author attribute to your Google + profile from the description ..  [profile_url]?rel=author.

The only hangup is determining if the rel=author attribute is applied in the YouTube description link or not, and If Google recognizes the attribute because Youtube pushes the link through a redirect before connecting with the Google + profile."

Can anyone speak further to this?

Thanks Marcus Miller and Moosa Hemani

I thought this was the case but wanted to be 100%.

Rich

I have a PPC campaign pointing to a custom landing page.
I also have a different webpage for the same product that is optimized to rank organically (on the same site).

1. Should I noindex the PPC landing page so it doesn't steal the thunder from my organic webpage?
2. If so, does noindex damage the adwords quality score?
3. Should I just give the PPC landing page a different Title tag that doesn't cannibalize my organic page and call it a day?
4. Does a PPC landing page need a title tag for a better adwords quality score?

Thanks!

Thanks for the great responses. I have decided to do audits by hand and compile results into a Google Doc. I do around 1 a week, it's worth the time.

I tried sitebeam.net. it is good for a quick overview but like woorank it doesnt really scratch the surface when it comes to content analysis like What are the title tags and what are the headers.

What online service provides the best SEO website audits? I can do an in depth one on my own but don't have the time to compose reports for prospective clients. I have been using Woorank, but was wondering if there was something better.

I just saw a huge jump for rank on a keyword and went to the SERPs to verify it and found it to be a mobile version of the page (it does not look pretty).

From what I read, I should put rel=canonical tags on the mobile site's pages that indicate the main website's pages to be the canonical version. Yes?