Hi, I have this website where I funnel visitors to the signup page with a lot of links. For example people click on an item in a list and are sent to the signup page. So, I have this list: *blue widgets *red widgets *yellow widgets All entries linked to the sign-up page. The sign-up page is always the same, no matter on what entry visitors click. There are also a lot other ways to the signup page. I am now think of customizing the signup page, according to the widget visitors clicked. Just like this: "So you want to buy blue widgets? Sign up here..." Of course I don't have just 3 entreis in the list, but like 3 or 4 new every day. I would use URL-Parameters for telling the signup page, which dynamic text do display from the DB for each widget. (singup.jsp?id=123) How do you think will the SE behave? Do you think they will generate copies of my page, with just the small intro text as a variation or will they just work with the latest variation of the signup page, they pulled from my website? Thanks and kind regards, Hans
If you only have 1 signup page, and lots of links to that page, I don't think that will count as duplicate content. If you have a different signup page for each widget, then it might count. Avoid using ?id=123 as the SE may think that it is a session id. Use something like ?widget=abc instead. Better still, use mod_rewrite to turn your URLS into this form: /widgets/abc/signup.jsp. Another approach would be to make the signup page not indexed by the SE, using robots.txt or robot meta tags. Then it won't matter about duplicate content, because the SE bots will never index that page. Cheers, Cryo.