What to do with duplicate pages

[olba]

Hi, I always read the forums to learn more about my SEO work. Im an SEO newbie and I would like to know a few things.
I hope I'll get some responses.
PS: I'm sorry If I posted this in the wrong section.

Regarding duplicate content and circular navigation, I have a website with a product page - books.html. My problem is I have 3 pages for this page: books.html, books2.html and books1.html with the same content(this is due to the circular navigation of the website), Is this regarded as duplicate content?

I am assuming it is a duplicate content issue, what can I do to block two of them so that only books.html is crawled by search engine bots.

I'd appreciate your responses on this.
Thanks..

[goodroi]

If a large percentage of the content is very similar than it is considered duplicate content. You should pick which page you want and block the other pages.

You can use robots.txt to block the search engines from DIRECTORIES not INDIVIDUAL PAGES.

You can use the robots metatag to block the search engines from INDIVIDUAL PAGES.

good luck

[olba]

Thanks for the reply.
Will do that and see how it goes. :)