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#1. I have a site with membership pages that are password protected. Some pages are available as free samples. These pages are located throughout the site but I also have these pages located(ie:duplicated) in one directory as a free tour. Now obviously this would be considered duplicate content since the pages are identical with the exception of the filename. Is a meta robots tag(noindex), on each duplicate page, sufficient to prevent SE's from considering these pages as duplicate content?
#2. On my protected pages the user is prompted with a login form which appears after the first heading and published date of the page. Since all of my protected pages display this form to users who arent logged in(ie: SE robots), would all of my pages be considered duplicate content or would the different page title, description, publish date, and main heading be sufficient to avoid duplicate content penalties?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
The pages are 'assembled' on the server side. If a user is logged in the actual page content will be 'written' to the page between the main h1 heading and the footer. If a user is not logged in a login form will be 'written' to the page instead of the content.
If so then your page will only show the login page to the google spider. That page will only show if there is a link to it from a non password protected page.
From what I understand, duplicate penalties apply to all except the original (or what google recongnises as the original), so one page will still be in there.
