Gallery Causing Duplicate Content Issues

[emma1986]

Hi!

I have a gallery on my website. When you click to view the next image it goes to a new page but the content is exactly the same as the first page. This is flagging up a duplicate content issue. What is the best way to fix this? Add a canonical tag to page 2,3,4 or add a noindex tag? I have found a lot of conflicting answers.

Thanks in advance

[katemorris]

If the image does change, your alt attribute text should change the "content" of the page. However, I would question if it helps to have these pages indexed. I assume it's your gallery page you want indexed.

If that is true and your site structure allows it, I would disallow all of those individual pages from being crawled using robots.txt. But that depends on the structure of the site. You can also just add a noindex tag on the image pages.

David also has a good point. (Below)

[David-Kley]

Why not use JQuery to load all the images in one page, in one gallery? Depending upon the coding of your custom CMS, I'm sure there is an HTML or simple gallery that you can integrate fairly easily.

[emma1986]

The images are different on every page but the content is not. Its also a custom cms.

Thanks!!

[katemorris]

The images are the same on each page? What platform are you on?

The best answer is going to depend on the above. It's not a matter of a canonical vs noindex. If they are really duplicate, image and all, there has to be some way to stop that from happening. But if the image does change, then we can figure it out from there.