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Originally Posted by blaze 
Am I to presume that this result is actually correct, and if so, is this good news? Or does it take a while before these errors (if any) have shown up?
This particular site I used as an example is only about 7 weeks old, with only about 650 pages indexed thus far -- which is about where it should be at as far as story/category count goes.
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Should be good news but not sure how long it take.
Here are our results from G's webmaster tools This site born on date is may 27, 2007. At one time there were 10000 pages index (dup content) but the site is only and 4400 pages, with 3500 of those being submissions.
On the 24th Dec I reported 400+ dup titles and as you can see thats down to 136. Reading and implementing, what makes sense, the
seo threads that are posted on these forums has brought that down.
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Title tag issues Pages
Missing title tags 1
Duplicate title tags 136
Long title tags 0
Short title tags 0
Non-informative title tags 0
Meta description issues Pages
Duplicate meta descriptions 6047
Long meta descriptions 0
Short meta descriptions 6274
Non-indexable content issues Pages
We didn't detect any issues with non-indexable content on your site.
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A little work on the robots.txt and and htaccess seems to have cleared up some of the dup content but as you can see there are still over 6000 pages with duplicate meta's and about the same in descriptions which is coming from category's and tags pages still in G's database. Current index now shows 3580 pages which is just about right consider some pages are not allowed to be indexed. Your fix in this thread will fix that but as a mentioned before, a huge task as we have a more than the averages bear's categories.
A change like this on a large site is risky and we have seen a decline in serp's referrals, but still 83% of the traffic comes from the serp's. Done quick, it appears we didnt suffer to badly and we expect the traffic to return to full strength within 30 days.