Would this be considered identical content?

**bige2533** · 10-19-2009, 04:11 PM

I have a lot of product pages that are very similar. A lot of the text is similar. The products do have different product names and their own title. But are the search engines considering these the same? Please look at both examples.

Ex#1: http://www.trailsticker.com/cgi-bin/...con-trail.html

Ex#2: http://www.trailsticker.com/cgi-bin/...use-gulch.html

**kuzmanin** · 10-19-2009, 06:25 PM

try to detect these pages and set noindex tag
just leave one of them indexed

**chrishirst** · 10-19-2009, 07:15 PM

Different titles are NOT identical.

**Brian07002** · 10-19-2009, 08:00 PM

Chris is right, titles are not identical which makes your pages not the same to google or other search engines for that matter.

**steelback** · 10-19-2009, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Different titles are NOT identical.

Why? As far as I see, they are exactly the same site!

**chrishirst** · 10-20-2009, 11:34 AM

Quote:

they are exactly the same site

Well errm? Yes, it is the same site but two different pages

Like the vast majority of ecommerce sites, there is a lot of "boilerplate text" but the pages are NOT identical.

**bige2533** · 10-20-2009, 12:55 PM

Thanks for the responses. It looks like google is slowly getting around to indexing the pages and they are coming up separately.