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Re: 60-70% duplicate content

webado

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.