Should I Nofollow These Pages?

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My Amazon site has a list of brands in the sidebar. When you click on one of the brands, it takes you to a page listing all the products made by the company in an excerpt format. Should I Nofollow these pages as it contains the same content that can be found on the homepgae and category pages (in the menu)?
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    You can use rel="canonical" or WP Plugin like All-in-One SEO to identify those pages.

    And you use 'noindex' not 'nofollow' to tell Google not to index pages.

    Mahlon
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  • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
    I know how to do it, but I'm asking if I should do it. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author dreamtoreality
    Anyone.... Will I get penalised by Google if I don't?
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  • Profile picture of the author GodMode52
    Actually your site wont get penalized but limiting robot acess to duplicate content may improve your performances even for SEO purpose , so just do it
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      nofollow was not meant for that. Nofollow has nothing
      to do with robots. It will only keep PR from leaking to
      the links. Nofollow does not mean not seen, nor does it
      have anything to do with whether a page gets indexed.
      That could mean that internal links will get slightly
      higher PR.

      Because people are using nofollow in ways it was never
      intended, google is probably at this moment thinking
      of other things to do with the ridiculous attribute.
      It's a complete failure.

      Duplicate content in this case, as most cases, is one
      big fat myth. Think about it. Amazon itself is bloated
      with dupe content. And do they suffer? Hardly.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author solemanali
    I don't think it is necessary to no-follow this pages..
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