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In the SEO-world, duplicate content is a huge worry. What this means is that search engine bots will generally filter-out pages that have the same content as another page (in whole or in part). The way to choose which pages the bots will index and which they won’t index can be determined by you.

To add to this discussion, you can read the following or just take my word for it — a quote from Matt Cutts (working as the leader of web-spam at Google):

A NoIndex page can accumulate PageRank, because the links are still followed outwards from a NoIndex page….

…and it will still accumulate PageRank, but it won’t be showing in our Index. So, I wouldn’t make a NoIndex page that itself is a dead end. You can make a NoIndex page that has links to lots of other pages.

For example you might want to have a master Sitemap page and for whatever reason NoIndex that, but then have links to all your sub Sitemaps.

Now, this is very important to note because now we know that even the links in a NoIndex page are going to be followed. In return, this should help other pages index higher in search engines. And to emphasize what we’ve learned:

Putting in duplicate content pages with lots of links is advantageous (good for you to rank higher).