Quoting From Another Part of Your Site
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Suppose that you wrote an awesome piece of content and want to feature short segments of that content on your product pages. Is there any risk (such as duplicate content problems) to quoting a paragraph from another page of your site?
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Matt give a good answer, i can only add one thing, what is your aim? if it is usefull to users them ok, go ahead see matts answer, but if it is for ranking, then its not going to do anything for you.
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Hi Charles
As long as your product pages have a reasonable amount of good and unique content of their own with which you are going to incorporate short segments from an awesome piece of content there shouldn't be an issue. I have done something similar previously. I think the best way to look at it is a common sense thing, ask yourself - does this page look similar to another page on my site from a content perspective? - if no you should be fine.
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