arran - 12:09 pm on Oct 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

Tightening of the duplicate content filter/penalty between pages on the same site is exactly what i've seen.

One of my sites has category pages (say example.com/cat1/) containing a short paragraph for each product taken from the main product page (say example.com/cat1/product1/). Although the product pages typically have another 300-400 words of unique content, all pages of the form example.com/catX/productY/ have gone URL only.

Another explanation would be a template penalty but i think that's highly unlikely.

I've lost a notch of PR

Totally unrelated.