Duplicate Page Titles and Content
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I have a site that has a lot of contact modules. So basically each section/page has a contact person and when you click the contact button it brings up a new window with form to submit and then ends with a thank you page. All of the contact and thank you pages are showing up as duplicate page titles and content. Is this something that needs to be fixed even if I am not using them to target keywords?
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Although needs is definitely a strong word, I'd say that this is something that you ought to fix, especially since it will be so easy.
Based on your description of the issue, it sounds like the quick fix is to add the noindex tag to the thank you and contact page:
However, this assumes that the contact and thank you pages shouldn't show up in the SERPs. I figure that's a safe assumption because I don't know when I'd ever like to see those pages.
The risk of keeping all that duplicate content around is that one day Google might penalize you for it and reduce all of your rankings. Is this likely? Who knows. But I'd rather not take the chance.
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