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Trisha - 1:36 am on Apr 7, 2004 (gmt 0)


The issue of duplicate pages comes up pretty frequently, and as far as I know Google will just index one. I hope that is the case and sites don't get penalized for having a few pages that are the same.

I've never had this problem before, but I am now creating pages from a database that really isn't constructed that well, and some products are showing up in more than one place on it. I can't figure out a way to keep from sometimes showing the same product in more than one of the category pages, and then I end up with some product detail pages being duplicated.

I will try to find a way to avoid it, but my programming skills aren't that great so I hope sites don't get hurt bad by a few pages being duplicated.


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