What's the current scoop on duplicate / mirror pages?

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What's the current scoop on duplicate / mirror pages?

From Nicholas on 30 June '98

A friend sells inflatable boats. They are useful for fishing,
recreational boating, whitewater, surfing, etc. Obviously few
of these people are searching for "inflatable boats". We need
to put his page in front of the more specific search strings.

Since the content of his page is well-tested, and able to sell
to all these groups, we are reluctant to mess with it.

In the current climate, can we simply change the title, META
description and keywords, plus the first couple of headings,
and submit essentially the same page under multiple URLs, from
the same domain?

Or do we need to make deeper changes to avoid the wrath of the
search engine administrators?

Replies from other people:

What happened to the Deadlock Despatch?? Scott - 08/7/98
Re: What's the current scoop on duplicate / mirror pages? bobking - 30/6/98
- Still wondering... Nicholas - 01/7/98

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Reply:	>A friend sells inflatable boats. They are useful for fishing, >recreational boating, whitewater, surfing, etc. Obviously few >of these people are searching for "inflatable boats". We need >to put his page in front of the more specific search strings. >Since the content of his page is well-tested, and able to sell >to all these groups, we are reluctant to mess with it. >In the current climate, can we simply change the title, META >description and keywords, plus the first couple of headings, >and submit essentially the same page under multiple URLs, from >the same domain? >Or do we need to make deeper changes to avoid the wrath of the >search engine administrators?