Duplicate content on site->citations? How important is it to change it?

[H.M.N.]

Hi there,

I recently realised that the citations and directories i was building used the same content than the one on my website. I know this is not best practice. I will for sure make sure it doesn't happen in the future, but I am affraid of the ones i built in the past.

How much do you think this would affect my rankings, and do you think this is a priority to go through my citations and directories to modify it?

[sarahwalsh]

We recommend not having any duplicate content marketing on your website.

We had this problem with a summerhouse Bristol company, where some of the pages were duplicated, and what can happen is that this can sometimes negatively and adversely affect the organic Seo for that business, because it has duplicated text So, instead, take the time to write high-quality, unique content marketing for every page and blog post.

[H.M.N.]

This is just an exemple (not really one of my clients) but lets say there is this paragraph of this web page: https://smallbusinesstaxaccountants.ca/about-us

"Small Business Tax Accountants (Canada) Inc. is quickly becoming an industry leader at accounting and bookkeeping for Canadian businesses by combining the latest templated documentation with highly qualified business professionals, in a truly unique formula!"

and on each of my citation and directory's description i am building, I am using this text as a description:

"Small Business Tax Accountants (Canada) Inc. is quickly becoming an industry leader at accounting and bookkeeping for Canadian businesses by combining the latest templated documentation with highly qualified business professionals, in a truly unique formula!"

[JohnSammon]

Hey! Can you post an example of one?

Thanks!

John