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I have a same paragraph appearing on two webpages of my site!

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Sam09schulz last edited by

is it gonna affect rankings

if so what should be done

thanks
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Vanderlindemedia last edited by

You could assign a priority to the page by using your sitemap, but on the other hand the priority is sometimes completely up to google.
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Chris.Menke last edited by

Still, one of these pages has to rank huger than the other--they can't both rank exactly the same.
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Sam09schulz @Chris.Menke last edited by

well on first page i have some 650 words and it is first paragraph of 70 words

on other page where it is appearing that page has 400 words and that 70 word copy is appearing at bottom.
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Chris.Menke @Vanderlindemedia last edited by

Good catch!
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Vanderlindemedia last edited by

https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization
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Chris.Menke last edited by

Sam,

Unless that paragraph is a large portion of the copy on both pages and/or is prominent at the top of your page, the impact on rankings will be nil for one page and maybe just a tiny bit for the other page.
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