Avoiding Duplicate Content

[menton]

Hi,

I am about to launch a number of websites selling widgets, but aimed at different markets. I have spent a lot of time writing original content for each individual site and I am almost ready to launch, but there is one issue I am not clear on the best way to go:

I want to put a company profile & FAQ section on each website, but I don't want to be punished by Google for using duplicate content as these sections will be very similar to each other.

As far as I can see it my options are:

- Use a Java Script link so Google can't follow
- Only have the company profile and FAQ on one of the sites and use a pop up window which links back to that page
- Ban spiders accessing the pages in question through the robots.txt

All help is gratefully appreciated

[ScottH]

did you consider using robots.txt to block all spiders from those specific pages?

-Scott

[topr8]

well you are not banned for duplicate content, it is just that the duplicate pages will not rank, so i don't see any problem in using the same faq's on each site. ... it should not affect the ranking of the rest of the site.

you could just use a frameset on each site in the contact/faq section and serve the same faq's anyway.