Duplicate Content
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When I say duplicate content, I don't mean that the content on a clients site is displaying on another site on the web or taken from a site on the web.
A client has a few product pages and each product page has content on the bottom of the page (4-5 paragraphs) describing the product. Now, this content is also displaying on other pages, but re-worded so it's not 100% duplicate. Some pages show a duplicate content % ranging from 12% to 35% and maybe 40%.
Just curious if I should suggest having each product page less than 10% duplicated.
Thanks for your help.
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Hey there,
absolutely, let's have less than 10% duplicated.
If the products are similar (just different color, size...), use the canonical tag. If the products are different, there shouldn't be a problem to write original content for each of them.
Hope it helps. Cheers, Martin
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Hi,
Yes that would be fine even you can make <10% duplicate.
Thanks
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