Duplicate content for area listings
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Hi, I was slightly affected by the panda update on the 14th oct generaly dropping by about 5-8 spots in the serps for my main keywords, since then I've been giving my site a good looking over.
On a site I've got city listings urls for certain widget companys, the thing is many areas and thus urls will have the same company listed.
What would be the best way of solving this duplicate content as google may be seeing it?
I was thinking of one page per company and prominenly listing the areas they operate so still hopefully get ranked for area searches.
But i'd be losing the city names in the url as I've got them now for example:
mywidgetsite.com/findmagicwidgets/new-york.html
mywidgetsite.com/findmagicwidgets/atlanta.html
Any ideas on how best to proceed?
Cheers!
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Think of it this want, if you are being done for duplicate content, then only one page will rank, haveing new-york or atlanta will not help as only one will be ranking. I like you one page per company solution much better.
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