Duplicate content on multiple pages

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On my website I have about 800 categories and on each category page I am adding in a paragraph of text (at the top of every page - each page is static/not dynamically created) explaining how the products can be used. The paragraph of text will be the same on each page, apart from one keyword which will change for each.

Is this a bad idea in terms of seo?
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  • Very bad idea - not worth pursuing. It is the definition of "duplicate content". It's an old tactic that Google caught onto years ago.
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    • Hi Kay, thanks for your reply. Do you think just a line of text is bad? Maybe just to say "Cat Sound Effects" and change "Cat" to the specific word per category page for each page?

      Surely some duplicate content can exist if very small? Pages with dynamically created pages for search results etc obviously have some duplicates I guess?

      Thanks
  • I think I have answered my own question there.... I guess it won't be duplicated as the keywords will change
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    • I'm a bit confused here. Are you only going to have one paragraph on each page? If so, changing one word out of one paragraph will still leave you with 99% duplicate content across 800 pages on your site.

      Or will there be unique content below the introductory paragraph? Or maybe a wordpress loop for the category archive?
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  • Will not even start the duplicate content debate, and the sites we have with 100,000's of pages. But one thing that will help is adding some RSS feeds at the bottom of your pages. Take the term you are placing into each paragraph and use it as the RSS news feed term. This way each page will have different different content and unique outbound links.

    This site is 100% dynamic pages with different geo-targets with news feeds and has not been doing too bad.

    And been going for a couple years now. White hat? Nope. Works? It can.
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    • Thanks for that. I will look into this, love the idea of it. Thank you
  • On the feeds, lets just say after a decade + being the white hat guy fighting Google, I have slipping into the "dark side" on a few things ;-)
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    Duplicate content on multiple pages

    On my website I have about 800 categories and on each category page I am adding in a paragraph of text (at the top of every page - each page is static/not dynamically created) explaining how the products can be used. The paragraph of text will be the same on each page, apart from one keyword which will change for each. Is this a bad idea in terms of seo?