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I have a large travel site that has over 140,000 pages. The problem I have is that the majority of pages are filled with dupe content. When Panda came in, our rankings were obliterated, so I am trying to isolate the unique content on the site and go forward with that.

The problem is, the site has been going for over 10 years, with every man and his dog copying content from it. It seems that our travel guides have been largely left untouched and are the only unique content that I can find. We have 1000 travel guides in total.

My first question is, would reducing 140,000 pages to just 1,000 ruin the site's authority in any way?

The site does use internal linking within these pages, so culling them will remove thousands of internal links throughout the site.

Also, am I right in saying that the link juice should now move to the more important pages with unique content, if redirects are set up correctly?

And finally, how would you go about redirecting all theses pages? I will be culling a huge amount of hotel pages, would you consider redirecting all of these to the generic hotels page of the site?

Thanks for your time, I know this is quite a long one,

Nick

Thanks so much for such a swift reply,

Sorry I may have phrased the question wrongly.

I should have said that I need the city pages to be less clicks from the root directory, as opposed to their actual URL structure.

Ideally, I want to be able to access the city pages before the county and country pages on the site, as they are more important.

Thanks A Bunch

I am designing the structure of a large travel webiste and have the following problem.

The obvious structure from a users perspective would be to structure locations as follows:

Home/Hotels/Country/County/City

i.e. Home/Hotels/UK/Lancashire/Preston

The problem is, it is the cities that I need closer to the root directory, instead of countries and counties.

If I did Home/Hotels/City or even

Home/Hotels/Country/City

There may be too many links on one page and google may think they're spammy.

How can I get the cities closer to the root directory as they are the most important pages on the site. Even if I did a text based sitemap I would encounter the same problem.

*scratches head!

Thanks in Advance,

Nick

UPDATE_________________________________________________________

Sorry I may have phrased the question wrongly.

I should have said that I need the city pages to be less clicks from the root directory, as opposed to their actual URL structure.

Ideally, I want to be able to access the city pages before the county and country pages on the site, as they are more important.

Thanks A Bunch