Duplicate Content vs Ideal URLs
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I have a question pertaining to duplicate content and the benefit vs penalty for my specific situation:
I sell the exact same products for 3 different programs, so I was using a unique URL for each product... for example:
example.com/products/platform1/productX
example.com/products/platform2/productX
example.com/products/platform3/productX
The content of each page is about 90-95% identical, with only a very small difference in one of the sections of the product description. Each product description is 2,000+ words, so they are lengthy and the vast majority of it is duplicate content.
My questions are the following:
1) Will this be seen as "duplicate content" by google or is changing just 5-10% enough to avoid that?
2) Is using the 3 unique URLs helping me a lot in SEO since people always search for the names of the "platforms" and having them in the URL triggers them for search engines?
3) What is my best bet for handling this? Should I keep things as are and accept a duplicate content penalty so that I can keep the URLs ideal for search engines...or should I combine the 3 URLs into 1 to avoid the duplicate content penalty? (e.g. www.example.com/products/productX)
My new website is still in the development phase so I am trying to figure this out beforehand. Thanks for any suggestions or help!
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