How could I avoid the "Duplicate Page Content" issue on the search result pages of a webshop site?

[csajbokz]

My webshop site was just crawled by Roger, and it found 683 "Duplicate Page Content" issues. Most of them are result pages of different product searches, that are not really identical, but very similar to each other. Do I have to worry about this? If yes, how could I make the search result pages different? IS there any solution for this?

Thanks:

Zoltan

[seohive-222720]

Adding noindex to search (dynamically) created pages will prevent the problem ever existing.  However not all CMS tools allow or this to be done.

[deltasystems]

Easy: noindex the search results so they don't appear in Google.

I realize you want the traffic and are attempting to skirt around the issue, but it's something Google warns against:

Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don't add much value for users coming from search engines.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769