Having a Size Chart and Personalization Descriptions on each page - Duplicate Content?
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Hi everyone,
I am coding a Shopify Store theme currently and we want to show customers the size comparisons and personalization options for each product. It will be a great UX addition since it is the number one & two things asked via customer support.
But my only concern is that Google might flag it as duplicate content since it will be visible on each product page.
What are your thoughts and/or suggestions?
Thank you so much in advance.
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This Matt Cutts video is from 2013, but I think it still applies today. I ran into the same issue once re: terms & conditions, asked a question very similar to yours, and somebody on this message board shared it with me. Hope it helps. Long story short, as long as you're not being spammy about it, you should be fine. I would add that since it's actually useful to your user, I would implore you to include it!
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Dirk,
Well it is essentially a Size Chart and then description of the sizes below. And Personalization examples and then a description of the options.
Yeah I was going to have "If Tabbed Click" then pull data into the tab, but that's what I had read that GoogleBot has a good understanding of this. Thanks for the clarification!
Just didn't want to hurt us when we want to be as relevant as possible when it comes to search.
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Duplicate content is determined on page level - just adding a few elements that are common on each page will not hurt, especially if it's content your customers are looking for on a page (I assume that the product description is present on the page and has a certain "body" - not just a one line description)
Putting it in Javascript wouldn't make a big difference - consider Googlebot as a small version of Chrome which is able to understand javascript (also the reason why you shouldn't block javascript resources for Googlebot)
Apart from that, duplicate content is not a cause for punishment (unless in extreme cases) - the main difficulty with duplicate content is that Google will decide which version of the content it will show, which does not always correspond with your preferred version.
Dirk
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Heres a scenario after continued research, display content on clicking of these particular tabs. I've heard Google can/can't pull content via javascript. But nothing in stone.
If anyone can advise, it would be greatly appreciated.
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