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Old 05-31-2005, 08:39 PM
andertoons andertoons is offline
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Default How Close Is Too Close? (PHP "Duplicate" Pages)

My site has thousands of images categorized into a dozen or so main topics.

Often images fall into more than one topic. For example, this cartoon falls into "office", "sales" and "business" leading to multiple URLs as such:

http://www.andertoons.com/toon.php?id=5030&topic=Office

http://www.andertoons.com/toon.php?id=5030&topic=Sales

http://www.andertoons.com/toon.php?i...topic=Business

On the surface it seems obvious that these are 'duplicate' pages, except that they're not enitrely.

At the bottom of each page there are three suggested images that vary every time you refresh the page. So each URL will be varying slightly from the others in this way.

Do you think Google could be penalizing me for duplication here?

Would it help if I created only one page for each cartoon and eliminate the "=topic" at the end of the URLs?
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