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I have a product review page that defaults to showing all reviews. On this page I have 5 links which link to showing only the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 star ratings.

If I have a product with 1 review which is a 5 star review, the 5 star review link then gets flagged for duplicate content as my URL changes from www.example.com/Review/CODE/0 to www.example.com/Review/CODE/5.

But the content doesn't change (as there is only the one review).

My initial thought is to add no-index to the review page that lists everything and only allow the search engines to index each star rating page individually.

Is this the correct approach?

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If you have same content on all the 6 URLs (www.mysite.com/Review/CODE/0 to www.mysite.com/Review/CODE/5) add rel="canonical"link to the <head> section of all the remaining 5 URLs.

Add <link rel="canonical" href="www.mysite.com/Review/CODE/0"/> to the <head> section of www.mysite.com/Review/CODE/1 to www.mysite.com/Review/CODE/5.

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  • I understand what no-index does. It should still index the other pages though which have all the reviews on anyway. i.e Don't index the /0 but go ahead and index /1, /2 etc. That was my thinking. I agree that the canonical option is much better though.
    – webnoob
    Commented Jan 28, 2014 at 10:44
  • So the contents on /1,/2 etc will be the same. right?
    – Sathiya Kumar V M
    Commented Jan 28, 2014 at 10:54
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    I don't actually provide links for those if there are no reviews with those rating values so they couldn't get to that point. It's not a problem, your canonical idea is the correct way, I just forgot about the tag. Thanks for your help.
    – webnoob
    Commented Jan 28, 2014 at 10:58

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