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Re: 60-70% duplicate content

Reid

Hi M.C.,

I agree with webado in this scenario.  If the body of these pages is a
template and the only thing that changes is the city and zip code,
this sounds a lot like doorway pages:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66355

Why push the limit on how much duplicate content a page can have?
Pages with unique content often perform the best in Google's search
results, are better for users, which in turn, is probably better for
your business.

- Reid

On Jul 17, 5:45 am, webado wrote:

> And why not have just ONE page and the list of zipcodes he covers on
> that one page?

> Doing it the way you mention is inefficient and such pages are likely
> not to all get idnexed since ideed they will be duplicates or near-
> duplicates.

> On 17 juil, 08:33, M.C. wrote:

> > Has anyone done research to how much dulpicate content your pages can
> > have.  I know it sounds crazy and why would someone do that.  My
> > client is a service company and we need to cover all the major suburbs
> > in thier Metro.  example.

> > Johns A/C does work in 28 different zip codes.  He creates 28
> > webspages, page names reflect the township AC_service_City_zip.htm,
> > meta tags reflect city, zip such as Johns AC serivce serving the
> > "City" and "zip code" area.  Then the body is a template and the city
> > and zip are filled in for each city/zip area.

> > This way when someone does a search for AC service "zipcode" or "city"
> > there is a good chance his page will be included.