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Hobie Singlefin 9'4 Takeda Fish 5'7 | Surfing Nosara

Hobie Singlefin 9'4 Takeda Fish 5'7 | Surfing Nosara

http://www.surfingnosara.com/forum/hobie-singlefin-94-takeda-fish-57-0

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WA Jer | Surfing Nosara

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Thank your for the responses.  We have a popular ride board that is awesome, and some buy and sell... other than that most of our forum has moved to our Facebook page.  About 1/3 of the duplicate content has a -0 after the title.  I am not sure how to take it out from the robots.txt file.

i guess the heart of my questions is I have always thought that all the content from the forum would help us in SEO.  Is it possible that it is really hurting us?  How does google look at a site that has a ton of pages ( we are an old site that keeps all of our content so folks can search it, old surf reports...)  but a ton of errors and duplicate content.  How much will solving errors and duplicate content help vs. just working on more links?  Where do i focus energy?

Hi, I run a site that is currently doing very well in google for the terms that we want.  We are 1,2 or 3 for our 4 targeted terms, but havent been able to jump to number one in two categories that I would really like to.

In looking at our site, I didn't realize we have a TON of duplicate content as seen by SEO moz and I guess google.  It appears to be coming from our forum, we use drupal.  RIght now we have over 4500 pages of duplicate content.

Here is my question:  How much is this hurting us as we are ranking high.  Is it better to kill the forum (which is more community service than business) and have a very tight site SEO-wise, or leave the forum even with the duplicate content.

Thanks for your help.  Erik