Which Content Causes Duplicate Content Errors

[Patrick_at_Nebraska_Medicine]

My Duplicate Content list starts off with this URL:

• http://www.nebraskamed.com/about-us/branding/bellevue-medical-center-logo

Then it lists the five below as Duplicate Content:

• http://www.nebraskamed.com/about-us/branding/fonts
• http://www.nebraskamed.com/about-us/branding/clear-zone
• http://www.nebraskamed.com/about-us/social-media
• http://www.nebraskamed.com/about-us/branding/order-stationery
• http://www.nebraskamed.com/about-us/branding/logo

I do notice that most of these pages have images and/or little or no content outside of our sites template. Is this causing SEOmoz to see it as duplicate?

Should I use noindex, follows to fix this? This error is happening with branding pages so noindex is an option. What should I do if that's not an option? Should I change our mega menus to be ajax driven to so the links aren't showing up in the code of every page?

[Patrick_at_Nebraska_Medicine]

Thanks for your feedback. I think this situation is a little different because we built our site using Masterpages in ASP.net so many of the pages have the same wrapper and each page has unique content. Many of those branding pages use an image to show branding guidelines and the social media page just has a few links to social media sites.

You are right. We should try to build out the content a little more but we are also considering using ajax to drive the mega menus because we're guessing that is contributing to the issue.

[irvingw]

create unique content for them if u can. if not canonical tag them to the lesser pages to the main page out of the group.