Spam and Duplicate content

Is this considered spamming

[stuart]

Current pages display 10 items per page, all in one keyword directory.

Would it be spam to create another keyword directory alongside the current one, include kw sub-directories; each with pages displaying the same items but 6 per page?

Also a third directory, maybe with sub-directories and lots of pages displaying 1 item per page?

All with slightly different dir/pagenames, title tags and meta tags.

Would it be risky repeating the same item description 3 times on differently weighted pages in a slighly different directory structure.

Thanks in advance.

[Brett_Tabke]

There are many that try that very thing and have no problems for years. I don't know if I would risk it today though.

[oilman]

risky? yes. The most I would do is have a page with a list of items and then a 'Details' link for each one that includes more info.

What you're proposing is highly suspect (it's something I would try and I get domains banned all the time :)) It might benefit you short term but certainly long term it's not a bullet proof plan.

[stuart]

I'm glad to hear that, brain was about to explode with keywords, dir structures and dbase fields and its mod_rewrite next.

Thanks again webmasterworld, for the advice and starting the headaches in the first place!