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I am building a BigCommerce store for selling framed art.  Many of the pieces of art will fall in more than one product category. Let's say I have a framed print of a photograph of a western landscape.  This piece of art would fit into these categories;  "western", "landscape", and "photography".   I would have three pages with duplicate content for just this one framed print. Will google give me less page rank due to this?  Can all the link juice be given to just one of the three categories by use of rel=canonical?  If so, does anyone know how to do this for a bigcommerce site? I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks, Kelly

I have a couple of websites for retailing the western chaps manufactured by my company.  I have recently tried to increase my learning for SEO since one of my main sites (started in 2006) just lost about 45% of it's organic search volume since the end of May.  It seems my search to learn just creates more and more questions. I have been using google adwords for several years now and have used that information to find the most searched keywords.  There are some general keywords like western chaps and cowboy chaps that receive decent search volume.  If I get more specific to a certain type of chap, chinks for example, the popular high volume keywords are chinks, chinks chaps, western chinks, and cowboy chinks.  These all relate to one type of chap...the chink.  I want to be visible for these keywords, but how does one optimize for more than one without diluting?  Should I also try to optimize on the homepage of my sites for the general terms like western chaps and cowboy chaps?  Can I optimize for both? I could really use some help.  Any experts out there up to the job of consulting for me, some with extensive knowledge and experience?  I'm not looking for the SEO giants with hundreds of clients.  I don't feel that I will get the proper value from those types.  My company is small and spending is an issue, that's why I would like someone to consult with.  I should be able to do most of the labor, I just need the knowledge.