It is *possible* that the duplicate pages were harming your rankings. It's also *possible* that they were simply being filtered. It is a good idea either way, to only allow the SE's to index one copy of the page.

As wige pointed out, give the SE's some time to visit your site a few times and "digest" the changes. In the mean time, continue to work on building and bettering your link profile.

Dave

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