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Yes, there is a way.
Use the Rel=canonical tag on your duplicate pages. Essentially you'll be telling google: "This is page B, which is a duplicate of Page A, please use Page A when displaying results in the SERPS"
Insert the code on the head of your page. Example:
Page A: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en
I agree with Phillip,
If your site is established and ranking well for brand terms, then making this change shouldn't effect the over all branded rankings, especially seeing as your not taking the brand out completely.
The keywords should ideally be the main focus of the page, thus having your keywords in the front of the title should boost rankings for those targeted terms.
I have always used and recommended using: Main Keyword | Secondary Keyword - Brand Name
On a side note: Something i recently started noticing (I don't have any resources to refer to) is that quite a few of our competitors don't use the "Keyword | Keyword - Brand" formula, instead they use "Great [Keyword] deals from leading [keyword] suppliers - Brand Name" and they seem to be ranking really well. (More descriptive words that entice users)
Perhaps Google is starting to prefer "natural" looking titles (including stop words, adjectives etc) and not putting much extra value on "optimized" title tag formula's (Keyword | Keyword - Brand) This is just a thought and haven't researched it much.
Greg
Followed links : Google finds the link and passes on a "vote" to the website linked to.
No-Followed links: Google finds the link but does NOT pass on a "vote" to the website linked to.
Internal Links: Links pointing to pages within your website
External Links: Links pointing to other websites from within your website.
I would advise you spend some time going through the beginners guide on SEOMOZ!
GREG
Nothing wrong with contributing to other websites! The problem comes up when you start scaling it up and do it to much! (quality decreases and footprints start to appear)
Instead of looking to "build" links through groups of webmasters that exchange content (My Blog Guest), why not find websites related to your industry manually that have blogs and reach out to the webmasters or editors?
You could look at what they've been publishing in the past and visualize what type of content they'd love to share with their audience and then pitch your ideas to the editor and see what they say. It doesn't have to be directly related to the service you offer as long as its in the same general industry.
Just remember, with guest posts, the intention is to write awesome content for a given website and its audience, not to try and sell anything or deliberately do it just to reference your site. Keep the website's audience in mind first and you should get your articles published on great sites!
Greg
I would recommend the articles be on your own website FIRST. you can then syndicate your article on your external blog, just be sure to let google index your site first.
Your keywords stand a better chance of ranking on your own website rather than a blog on blogspot.com (not always true but most of the time this is the case)
Hi Ben.
Now more than ever Google is focusing on Brands rather than standard "keyword rich" websites.
Brands offer trust more than anything and is by far the best way to go if you plan on building a long lasting online business...
"Budget Car Rental" is a real brand, but then its also a money making term. Google has clearly recognised the term as a brand which is great and if your client can do the same, then no harm done.
It gets manipulative when your brand is "ABC car rental" and your website is "Budget car rental.com"
The only reason exact match domains are still ranking I presume is because Google is still tied up in identifying which are brands, and which are there solely for ranking benefits. Google's not stupid and things are changing fast.
I guess the best way to explain it to your client is to say:
For short term ranks with no guaranteeing on future success, then choose a URL with the sole objective of manipulating Google into ranking you well.
Or
Choose a brand name and built trust that will last for years to come.
If they choose to go the manipulative route, then at least you have done all you can to educate them leaving you with a clean conscious for when they regret the decision made.
Just my 2c worth...
Greg
How many links have you built to this site? Can you confirm that the links are live? Are the pages were the link exist indexed?
If you've been building links to this domain since January, the DA surely should have gone up by now. The DA is only measured by links pointing to the site and page speed doesn't influence this at all.
Check your webmaster tools account and see if Google is reporting on any links pointing to the site. If not, i'd audit the links you've built. Perhaps you linked to the wrong domain or those pages simply haven't been indexed yet.
Greg
IMO. Google wont ever penalize someone for providing relevant and useful content to a website. The only time it would become an issue is when the site you guest blog on, is no different to a link exchange website built only for the search engines.
If you provide a great article to a site that actually serves a purpose and naturally link back to your site (contextual links that support the message in the article), then you have nothing to worry about. If you submit your "guest post" to a site no different to the old school article directories, then you're doing it wrong and Google will pick up on this.
When they say guest posts need to contain a no-follow link, this applies to "sponsored posts" were you pay a fee to get your article published. This is no different to a paid link and if its paid, you need to no-follow.
With a niche like yours, find creative ways to create content that's not directly related to your website. If its gambling, think about related entities. "Board games, Bingo nights for Seniors, Card games etc. There are loads of websites that talk about these subjects that may be interested in guest articles that you can use to legitimately link back to your gambling website (without a bad neighborhood)
Greg
Hi,
These pages exist and are exact duplicates according to Google. You said you stopped generating these URL's over year ago?
Why not just 404 all children URL's?
Once done, you can either request them to be removed from the index, wait for them to disappear or you could 301 them if the children URL's are still getting traffic.
Just make sure that you have no links internally pointing to any of the children URLs and Google should forget about them,
Once your done with all the above, you can mark the errors as fixed, and Google should stop reporting them,
GREG
If you are competing with this guy, dont replicate what he has done. Prove to google your site is more popular by getting even better quality links. Google wont have a choice but to rank yours if your link profile is more authoritative.
GREG
http://www.seomoz.org/seo-toolbar
If you install that toolbar, you can check to see if links are follow or no follow.
Social Media is correct. I never checked the site, but the links are marked as No-follow so it wont help with your rankings..
If you are wanting to publish an article, I would suggest rather asking a webmaster in your niche to publish it on there website in the form of a guest post.
Do some research here for info on guest posting. Once you have a good understanding, type this in Google for guest posting opportunities.
"Keyword"+“Guest bloggers wanted” OR “guest blogger wanted”
The examples you gave aren't duplicates so don't worry about enabling that option.
All the "rentals" pages are using the archive template. Essentially its just a template like any other template you have set up. Usually archives list historical articles and posts and are generally no-indexed but your archive template is set up differently.
2 things i noticed.
You don't have a sitemap on your home page and nothing here: http://villasdiani.com/sitemap.xml
Your archive title tags im guessing are generated automatically, you might want to change the title tags on all "rentals" pages and only include the main descriptive keyword.
I hope this helps.
Greg
Great insight John, thanks for the words of wisdom.
What are you thoughts regarding sub-domains? You could have also created a sub-domain and geo targeted a specific country for each.
Example:
www.website.com (Global)
uk.website.com (UK Only)
au.website.com (Australia Only)
I'm not sure if sub-domains or new domains have more weight than the other, but it makes sense to keep the site and brand as a whole intact rather than creating new domains and just geo target each for their respective country/audience.
Greg
Its your logo thats causing the issue.
Notice that its supposed to link back to the home page, instead its linking to the page your on and its including /index.html at the end of the URL.
Not sure how the header image is set up, but have a look at that, it will fix your 404 errors.
Greg
Hi Lisa,
When viewing posts per tag, the content on that page is identical to the content on another page which is triggering the dupe content.
The general rule of thumb is to no-index your tag pages. If you're using wordpress, Yoast SEO plugin allows you to set the no-index tag automatically.
Greg
Incorrect!
The "Top Pages" tab at the top just points out the most valuable and strongest pages of your website..
This tab doesnt report on links, it just reports on your best pages.
Greg
In terms of SEO, any CMS can be optimised for SEO /CRO benefits so it essentially boils down to the size flexibility and style of the website you want to set up.
In my experience, Expression engine is great if you have developers and graphics designers working on your site. (which would be built from the ground up, custom templates etc)
If you have your standard bloggers with little HTML/programming/Graphics design skills, wordpress is the way to go as its the most user friendly platform in my opinion. (Free and paid templates available for download)
As mentioned, any CMS can incorporate SEO/CRO best practices, its up to the type of website and the skills you have at your disposal.
Just use the Main domain URL.
I don't think individual pages are a factor. If you include the post URL, Google i assume only looks at the domain so either or, it doesn't matter, It just needs to confirm that your a contributor to a given domain.
Creating links on different websites is the key... Submitting multiple articles to the same websites/Directories wont have as much of an effect as if you submitted to other websites.
I have also heard that links in article directories and web 2.0 sites are devalued by Google as they are easily "created" and not "Earned"
If i was you, I would search Google for websites looking for guest authors and submit your article to those websites.
Search this in Google and you should get a few websites to submit your articles too.
"keyword"+“Guest bloggers wanted” OR “guest blogger wanted”
Greg
Yes it does effect your rankings.
I cant say how much, but is definately a factor that Google considers when ranking your pages.
Make sure you are using a reliable host as not only Google gets mad when pages become unavailable.
Greg
There's nothing wrong with Legitimately linking to relevant websites (yours or not)
SEOMOZ for example.. They link to all of their properties from here...
The only thing to look out for is site-wide links, or more links then what would be regarded as "natural"
Also, make sure your websites are all on unique C-class IP's or Google wont value the links from your other sites as much as it would if they were on unique C-class IP's.
If 10 sites have the same C class IP, they are most likely owned by the same person, therefor Google places less value on them
Greg
Moz doesn't just look at the text of a page, it also looks at the template and how "similar" it appears compared to other pages.
Here's a quote from Dr. Pete:
"Our system currently uses a threshold of 95% to determine whether content is duplicated. This is based on the source code (not the text copy), so the amount of actual duplicate content may vary depending on the code/content ratio."
Here are a few articles you can read to get a deeper understanding.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-in-a-post-panda-world
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/duplicate-content-block-redirect-or-canonical
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-illustrated-guide-to-duplicate-content-in-the-search-engines
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/rethinking-duplicate-content
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/fat-pandas-and-thin-content
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-illustrated-guide-to-duplicate-content-in-the-search-engines
Greg
It really depends what your intentions are.
If you are look at it technically, 20 links from 20 different domains i believe will be more beneficial in terms of improving your link profile and ranks.
On the other hand, if the audience on that website is closely related and you think you'll get allot of referral, click through traffic from the 20 different articles, then that could be an option.
Adding up the pro's and cons mixed with the intent of your promotion will give you your answer.
If your looking at improving your link profile (ranks) then i would go 1 on 20 rather than 20 on 1.
Greg
I would email each webmaster and save the corrospondance so that you can atleast prove to Google that you have tried to remove the links when you send your next Reconsideration request.
We wernt hit by any penalties, but after running the detox tool, we found a few sites that had been deinexed and got a decent response rate when asking for the link to be removed
If we ever get hit by a dodgy link penalty, we can at least provide some proof that we tried to clean up our link profile.
Greg
www.acupunctureintakeform.com/template/ is a much better idea.
There will be no benefit in terms of SEO for you to repeat the keyword in the URL
As for the future pages, you could always do the following
www.acupunctureintakeform.com/template/
www.acupunctureintakeform.com/template-with-diagrame/
www.acupunctureintakeform.com/template-with-pictures/
etc
Hope that helps.
Greg
You could optimise the website for the location in UK that the business is situated in. This will give it some priority over other websites if you search in the same location as the business.
Do some research on Local SEO and make the most of it for your client.
Greg
IMO Alt image tags shouldn't play a part in over optimization i wouldn't think. If anything, reduce the amount of times the product name is mentioned in the content.
If i were to further improve the alt image tags however, i'd suggest including descriptive words as well as the product name:
Original: Blue Shoes
New: Shiny Blue Shoes for Boys
This way, your not laser targeting each page for a certain keyword and instead mixing it up a bit for users. It looks natural this way and your images should still rank for the keywords.
Greg
Web2.0 sites are the lowest value links you can get imo and a waste of time.
remember
site.wordpress.com and website.wordpress.com are both on the same website, that being Wordpress.
No matter how many links you get on these blog sites, they still only count as 1 linking root domain which doesnt help SEO very much.
Dont waste you time spinning articles to submit on web.20 sites (Senuke X blasts etc) Rather spend your time creating unique articles and publishing them on different REAL websites. This is the difference between "Building" links and "earning links" (which do you think Google prefers)?
Greg
Your campaign does the checks automatically. You cant force it to re-scan. However, you can use the moz crawl tool and export the CSV document to confirm you've fixed the issues.
All the info is identical to the weekly moz crawl, only without diagrams and charts etc.
http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test
Greg
I've actually just finished listening to a podcast about this entitled "Fail proof content"
Essentially, instead of thinking about what to write in the hopes that someone links to the content, why not instead look for content that is already being linked to from websites in your industry.
For example, you could have a look at competitor sites, or even sites that are in your general niche (web hosting, web design, user experience etc etc)
Pop them into opensiteexplorer and export the backlink profile. After this, you can try and identify what content people are linking to. Once you've identified what they have on their sites that people like, you simply do the same, but even better.
Once the content is up, you can reach out to websites similar to the ones who linked to the competitors content and suggest they link to yours, (or just make them aware of the content without asking for anything)
http://pointblankseo.com/fail-proof-content
Some link worthy content + rich snippets and good on page SEO will surely help you compete with your competitors 
Greg
Strictly speaking, any form of duplicate content is frowned upon and in theory, if a link exists on a page with content identical to another website, that link would be less valuable.
If each of your descriptions in listings were unique to some extent, i'd guess the value of the link would be somewhat better.
I don't think you'd run a risk of getting penalties though as the dupe content doesn't originate on your site, (unless the description you plan on using is identical to content somewhere on your site)
I think the only negative to using the same description across multiple sites would be the value that passes with the link.
(I don't have any evidence for this though, just a theory)
Greg
You only need to create 1 campaign for the website.
Roger bot will crawl all your product pages and report on any technical issues you have with the pages.
When checking for ranks, SEOMOZ checks the pages that are ranking as well as your domain so you dont have to assign different keywords for different pages in your campaign settings.
Dont worry about creating multiple campaigns, just load your website URL, insert the keywords for all your product pages, and wait for a report at the end of the week.
Greg
Thanks, that makes sense YouON. I could create interesting/funny/entertaining videos on YouTube for brand awareness, and more product/tour orientated videos on my site for pre-selling and SEO
Thanks for the advice everyone
Greg
We have just launched a new Travel website aswell. (4 months in the making)
Each page has its own targeted keywords so Meta Descriptions and Title tags for your destination pages are important!!
We found a plugin that allows us to change the "template" for the destination pages.
Tell those guys who built your site that not being able to edit dynamic pages is NOT cool and they need to make a plan!
If you dont put them in, google may decide to rank your home page for keywords instead of the correct tour/product page.
GREG
Hi Craig
Simply put, yes you will get the "trust" signal by getting a link on that website.
However, because the page you create has very little authority, there is very little "link juice" that passes onto your website (The stronger the page, the more ranking power you receive)
Get the best of both.. Publish the article, and then build a few back links to your article. This will improve the article pages Authority (page rank) and will in tern filter it into your website..
Just make sure the article is not specifically about the products you sell or it may outrank your website when you promote the article
Greg
1.) The only ones at risk are your affiliates. The content was indexed on your site first, If someone has the same content without linking back, they get the dupe content flag.
2.) There are many factors on what a "good" link is. In your case i wouldn't worry about the dupe content. They great thing with your business model is the amount of linking route domains and C class IP's which makes up for the low value link.
3.) This is NA, as long as you make sure these pages link back to you (original source), your partner sites will be fine. If not, they will get a knock and not you.
GREG
The plugin Just makes filling out the Meta titles and descriptions easier and provides more technical SEO options for your pages/posts.
With regards to your archive pages, It wont change any Meta or URL info on existing posts, It will just point the Meta and Title etc when you edit the page.
I use Yoast on our WP sites, it makes editing pages for SEO benefits easy.
GREG
If your going to 301 the URLs, be sure to 404 them first otherwise you wont be able to send a removal request in G-WMT
To remove a page or image, you must do one of the following:
GREG
There are 3 external links on the example page.
2 are the FB and G+ links
The other is the question mark in the captcha box pointing to Google.com. Its followed, and external.
I hope this solves the mystery?
Regards
Greg
Hi,
I have an old Wordress website with about 300-400 original pages of content on it. All relating to my company's industry: travel in Africa. It's a legitimate site with travel stories, photos, advice etc. Nothing spammy about. No adverts on it. No affiliates.
The site hasn't been updated for a couple of years and we no longer have a need for it. Many of the stories on it are quite out of date.
The site has built up a modest Mozrank value over the last 5 years, and has a few hundreds organically achieved inbound links.
Recently I set up a swanky new branded website on ExpressionEngine on a new domain.
My intention is to:
Sounds good, right?
But there is one issue I need some advice on...
The old site has about 100 pages that do not have a good match on the new site. These pages are outdated or inferior quality, so it doesn't really make sense to rewrite them and put them on the new site.
I call these my "black sheep pages".
So... for these "black sheep pages" should I (A) redirect the urls to the new site's homepage (B) redirect the urls the old site's home page (which in turn, redirects to the new site's homepage, or (C) not redirect the urls, and let them die a lonely 404 death?
OPTION A:
oldsite.com/page1.php -> newsite.com
oldsite.com/page2.php -> newsite.com
oldsite.com/page3.php -> newsite.com
oldsite.com/page4.php -> newsite.com
oldsite.com/page5.php -> newsite.com
oldsite.com -> newsite.com
OPTION B:
oldsite.com/page1.php -> oldsite.com
oldsite.com/page2.php -> oldsite.com
oldsite.com/page3.php -> oldsite.com
oldsite.com/page4.php -> oldsite.com
oldsite.com/page5.php -> oldsite.com
oldsite.com -> newsite.com
OPTION 
oldsite.com/page1.php : do not redirect, let page 404 and disappear forever
oldsite.com/page2.php : do not redirect, let page 404 and disappear forever
oldsite.com/page3.php : do not redirect, let page 404 and disappear forever
oldsite.com/page4.php : do not redirect, let page 404 and disappear forever
oldsite.com/page5.php : do not redirect, let page 404 and disappear forever
oldsite.com -> newsite.com
My intuition tells me that Option A would pass the most "link juice" to my new site, but I am concerned that it could also be seen by Google as a spammy redirect technique.
What would you do?
Help 
Yes, these pages are seen as duplicates.
Yes, Redirect B to A
You could also create a rule somehow to redirect or add the / to all URL's without a trailing slash just for piece of mind that you wont have to do this again.
Greg
It depends on the content in my opinion.
It would be ideal If you could cover a topic and conclude with a max of 2000 words but If you cant, I would break it up into parts or chapters that you could maybe publish over a few days .
There are pro's and cons to both, but In my opinion, keep it to a max of 2000 words per page.
I havnt tested or tried it yet, but here's your answer.
http://seogadget.com/links-data-excel-seomoz-api/
You'll need excel + SEO tools for Excel.
I'll give it a bash a bit later and see if it works.
Greg
Dana, I just want to chip in on Point 1..
Ignoring your 404 pages is fine. But make sure to remove all links on your website pointing to the 404 page.
When google bot crawls your pages, and finds a link to a 404 page, it doesnt care if the 404 page is optimised for users, It's still a 404 so G bot wont be happy.. With these 404's you also get duplicate content/Titles and meta descriptions as there are many of them.
In other words, be sure to removal all links pointing to 404 pages. Link Sleuth makes this easy..
Greg
Meaning heading tags (H1, H2, H3, etc) are a critical part of good on-page optimisation. Fair enough. It helps humans and bots make sense of a page's content.
3 questions regarding implementation of heading tags:
Should heading tags appear in sequence in the HTML code. I.e. H1 first, then H2 lower down, etc.?
Can the page contain more than one H1 tag?
Can the page contain multiple H2, H3, H4 tags?
Hi Craig,
Search this in Google "keyword"+“Guest bloggers wanted” OR “guest blogger wanted”
Then analyse the authority of each site, and choose the best 10 to submit your articles to.
You could also join the guest posting community at myblogguest.com
Good luck!
Greg
You can use the Moz Crawl tool to identify Duplicate issues. You can get the same report for a competitor that you get in your campaign. http://pro.moz.com/tools/crawl-test
Open the links up and have a look at the page.
Is it relevant to your website?
Do the other links on the page point to unrelated websites?
Install the Mozbar on your browser and have a look at the Domain / Page Authority with the number of links pointing to the website.
I wouldn't worry about it if they appeared naturally. A link is a link. Although it may not be as valuable as a link from an authoritative website, its still a link you never had before.
I would only worry about removing them if the website is clearly a "spam" website, otherwise dont stress and keep getting links on relevant websites.
Greg
As long as YOU know that you don't promote your site via porn/gambling sites then who cares? Explain to them your sites history and then they wont jump to conclusions when they see your link profile.
Its impossible to remove that link anyway, unless you contact the web-master.
GREG