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Originally Posted by minstrel
There is no duplicate content "penalty". There is a duplicate content filter - what that means is Google will genrally index one page and ignore the others. To ensure that Google chooses the one you want indexed, block the others using robots.txt, as handcrafteduk has done with the ?zend pages.
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While I agree that there is no "duplicate content penalty" per se, it is *possible* for duplicate content to harm rankings. If Google happens to filter out the most desirable page, the one they choose to display *may* not rank as high. Also, since the duplicate pages are probably found via links, each one of them diminish the value of all the other links on the page, making it *possible* to harm rankings for other terms as well in a variety of ways.
Dave