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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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    • Casefun
      Casefun last edited by

      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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      • Francisco_Meza
        Francisco_Meza last edited by

        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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        • eyepaq
          eyepaq @eyepaq last edited by

          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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          • eyepaq
            eyepaq @MarkScully last edited by

            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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            • MarkScully
              MarkScully @Casefun last edited by

              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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              • Casefun
                Casefun @MarkScully last edited by

                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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                • MarkScully
                  MarkScully last edited by

                  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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                  • eyepaq
                    eyepaq last edited by

                    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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