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Does having the same descrition for different products a bad thing the titles are all differnent but but they are the same product but with different designs on them does this count as duplicate content?
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does having the same description for different products a bad thing the titles are all different but but they are the same product but with different designs on them does this count as duplicate content?
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I heard Matt Cutts on a video say that meta description is not a ranking factor anymore. But have the same meta description repeat many times throughout your site can sound like a spam site.
I personally would write different meta description. If it's only a couple hundred, just hack it out and get it over with. If it's in the thousands, well you have a problem.
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Yes, because it make sense for both the users and Google.
Google is against duplicate description all over your site for home page, contact, about and product pages just because that will impact the users in a negative way. In your case, like in zazzle.com it dose make sense.
It will be weird and un-helpful just to change the description so you don't have duplicates or just change slight words again for the same reason.
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I have to disagree - I still strongly suggest not to focus to much on this issue in your case - but this is why this filed is exciting
different opinions and approaches If the description for the product is the same why changing it ? We should do this for the user not google if we want to keep everything clean and white. And in this case for the user it dose make sense to have the same description.
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Yeah that should be fine. Sorry, you didn't mention before how closely related the products were.
Just try to keep the description as unique as you can, as hard as that might be when exact same product but a different colour.
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Hi The problem we have is the only difference is the design printed on the case the actual case itself is the same as all the others made out of the same material etc etc. So we presumed google looks at just the title etc.
So if we just changed the words slightly to each other or just describe the image would this be okay
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Hi David,
If it's exactly the same description used for different products then yes, it still counts as duplicate content.
Why are you not writing unique descriptions? It would be much more informative for the customer if the description was specific to the product they wished to purchase.
Multiple product pages with the same description is a large problem now with Google Panda.
Avoid doing it.
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For sure it dosen't count as duplicate content !
The only down side is the CTR in search results pages - if having the same description your user could be confused then it's a problem if not then it's 100% ok.
Hope it helps.
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