Can two duplicate content pages cause a ranking drop?

[masood82]

hi i have two pages which are assumed as duplicate content.my site has dropped from top positions.so what i have to do should i remove these pages completely if yes then what i have to do.

[tedster]

If you have only two pages that duplicate each other I doubt that it could affect rankings fro the entire site. More likely that Google's new patterns - which are quite a break from the recent past - are affecting your site.

I would suggest using a meta no-index tag for one version of the duplicate material so that you make the choice about which page gets indexed instead of letting Google make that decision.

Threads that might help - but note, they usually are talking about more than two pages:

Duplicate Content [webmasterworld.com] - get it right or perish
Duplicate Content [webmasterworld.com] - comments from Google's Adam Lasnik

[itravelvietnam]

If you have only two pages that duplicate each other I doubt that it could affect rankings fro the entire site.

What if pages are duplicate with the external sites?

I have two pages:

example.com/travelnews/
example.com/tg/

They have the same content, Google indexed all, and one of them has high ranking for the choosen keywords...

So I do not feel that site duplication may affect the whole site ranking.

What do you think?

Kurt.