Will a "no follow" "no index" meta tag resolve duplicate content issue?
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I have a duplicate content issue. If the page has already been indexed will a no follow no index tag resolve the issue or do I also need a rel canonical statement?
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Correct, you don't, but you don't want it ignored either. Use the canonical attribute to refer back to the original content and transfer authority and juice.
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Actually, I don't want the duplicate page indexed. Will disallow robots.txt do the trick or do you still recommend the rel canonoical statement?
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no follow will resolve juice being passed to it
no indexed will keep it from being indexed by SEs (not what you want)
Use the Canonical. Easy search on SEOmoz and search YouTube for Canonical to see Matt Cutts talk on this.
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You need to use the rel=canonical statement to resolve the duplicate content issue.
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