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by dtoebe
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My question is I have an e-commerce site, that carries a lot of different brands. Now I want to add a paragraph below the individual product description, to describe the brand. were looking at 10 to 20 product pages having that paragraph. Now will google, and other search engines see that as duplicate content, and possible penalize me?
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  • Profile picture of the author dbwebdesignz
    Cant you just tailor it to each product because you wont have 20 of the SAME product will you? when it would just be 1 listing.. Create a unique piece of each product you have
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    • Profile picture of the author delton yell
      I agree. Create a video tailor of each product.

      Originally Posted by dbwebhosting View Post

      Cant you just tailor it to each product because you wont have 20 of the SAME product will you? when it would just be 1 listing.. Create a unique piece of each product you have
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  • Profile picture of the author Green Moon
    Is there other text on the pages that varies from page to page? If so, what percentage of the text remains the same from page to page? I think you only need to worry about duplicate content if the content is largely the same on each page, not just if some content repeats.

    "Penalize" is probably not the right word. Google doesn't penalize your site in the case of duplicate content but will determine what it considers to be the main copy and will disregard the others if it considers them to be duplicates of the first. It is simply a matter of not wanting to return multiple copies of the same content in a user's search results.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      It's duplicate content, but needed. It's not
      the same as duplicate content trying to
      shmooze google.

      Amazon, ebay,... actually any huge e-commerce
      site does the same thing.

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      • Profile picture of the author dtoebe
        Would it be a bad idea to add a keyword I hope to rank in that paragraph?
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        • Profile picture of the author lindasofia
          Google will not penalize because the content is published only on your site. If the same content is published on some other site than it can be penalized.
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    Well, that is indeed duplicate content... If I were you, I would probably publish syndicated content. If this does not help me in ranking, it won’t either hurt my ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author elzafonv
    i think it's ok. it's part of the products description. i would not link in it. maybe to the brand's site but that's it.
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  • Profile picture of the author AlexPandian
    Google may to see such things as duplicates, there are high possibilities
    It is better to re-write such content and post on your website. I usually rewrite/ get some ideas and write on my own words when I do such promotions.
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  • Profile picture of the author codecreative
    Google will not penalise your site. Duplicat content penalty is more with regards to duplicate content within the same site which is why cannocial tags are used. Duplicate content across different sites is content syndication. As someone mentioned google disregards multiple copies from the serps but doesn't penalise
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  • Profile picture of the author Imtiaz Rayhan
    I think that's all right. Because it's part of the products description.
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  • Profile picture of the author richardfranklin
    Yes it will be duplicate content, but you are describing a specific product in that content. So you can use it 20 times if it is just a paragraph. And if you want to stay safe forever, you need to change some lines in that paragraph in two or three places to avoid exact duplicacy.
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