Avoid duplicate page penalty and also have the pages indexed separately

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    I have a Canadian classified ad site where people can post an ad in multiple cities, provinces or the whole Canada.
    Each city is in a subdomain.

    My goal is to avoid duplicate page penalty and have the pages indexed separately even though they are 99% the same.
    I've put some h1, h2 tags about the current city, some meta geo tags etc.

    e.g. toronto.domain.com/123.html and montreal.domain.com/123.html could point to the same ad but I want toronto.domain.com/123.html to show up only when somebody uses matching keywords e.g. "Toronto some_keywords_that_are_contained_in_the_ad".

    any ideas ?
     
    lordspace, Feb 9, 2011 IP
  2. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    Need a link.....

    are these urls generated dynamically? Are you using a "thing lol" that spits out separate html files?

    At a glance you can tackle this with the canonical tag but I am sorta flying blind without seeing what we are talking about.

    Nigel
     
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  3. lordspace

    lordspace Peon

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    xplicitman Greenhorn

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    i have too many blogs to make the content unique soo i spin some existent articles like 50% or more and change completely the title. Google find your article like duplicate by title.i checked this with copyscape soo i don't speak bullshits. Soo..title seems to be the key.
     
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