Ratings pages are Duplicate Content
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This brought up another question. should the review page (which now has a canonical to the item page) be Index,follow?
My item review pages are showing up with Duplicate Content errors in MOZ. Here are two examples
http://www.americanmusical.com/ItemReview--i-HAM-SK1-LIST
http://www.americanmusical.com/ItemReview--i-MAC-203680902-LIST
is the problem that the pages contain the same code and questions with very little customer created info?
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This brought up another question. should the review page (which now has a canonical to the item page) be Index,follow?
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Wow. That makes a lot of sense! I kept thinking I wanted the rating page to be important, but you make my error so obvious! Thank you!!
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You're right, the page itself is mostly duplicate because the bulk of the page is just the site code and there is very little content.
You also have the review on the product page and then on its own page, which I do not recommend doing in your situation. You want to use those reviews to help your product pages rank higher in the SERPs, not ranking review pages on their own. I suggest keeping your reviews to the product page. If you cannot prevent your system from creating unique product review pages, at the very least have them have a canonical URL to the product page, so G understands that the product page is the main importance.
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