Are duplicate pages formatted for printing penalty targets?

[Jon_King]

I have a good site where the PR has dropped to 0.

The only thing I can figure besides a possible server outage during a crawl is that many pages on the site are almost exact duplicates with 'tighter tables' so to fit a standard page when printing. These are linked to each product page.

Is this a problem to Google?

[Macguru]

Hi Jon_King,

I dont know about getting PR 0 for this, but similar content in thighter tables is risky.

I keep them in a disalowed folder, and had no problem yet.

>>besides a possible server outage during a crawl

Hosted on M$ garbage? ;)

The idea is if body text is similar, it's almost the same page to indexers.

[Jon_King]

Macguru,

It's real easy to hide em in a folder, so I will do that and as far as M$ garbage... yes it is IIs. Oh well.

If I have an occasional link I don't want spidered haven't I read about java links doing the same thing?

[Macguru]

AFAIK, spiders wont follow links 'cloaked' in JS. Also, if you dont want certain pages to be indexed, you can use the robots.txt file or the robots meta tag.

[The Contractor]

Easiest way to keep duplicate pages formatted for printing is simply by adding: <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

[Jon_King]

As I thunk myself upside the head, thanks Contractor.