Steven Zahm@ Mike
Yep, probably not the best for SEO, especially if your static text is greater than the unique text. Because Connections outputs via a shortcode, there is no way to remove the static contents of the page due to the order in which WordPress parses the page. The only option I would have is to pre-parse the page and remove all content except for the shortcode and then let WordPress parse the page like normal.
All that said… this can be worked around. Here’s how…
Create a new page. The name of the page is not relevant but should applicable, you know for good SEO permalinks :).
The content of this new page should be the [connections] shortcode and nothing else.
Save the page and take note of the page ID, You’ll need it. You can find it in the browser address bar as part of the URL.
Go to your original directory page and add the home_id shortcode option. You shortcode on the page should look something like this:
[connections home_id="n"]
Save the page.
No when the links in the directory are clicked, they will resolve to the new page.
Hope that helps!