Duplicate Content - Panda Question

[Boodreaux]

Question: Will duplicate informational content at the bottom of indexed pages violate the panda update?

**Total Page Ratio:  **  1/50 of total pages will have duplicate content at the bottom off the page.  For example...on 20 pages in 50 different instances there would be common information on the bottom of a page. (On a total of 1000 pages).  Basically I just wanted to add informational data to help clients get a broader perspective on making a decision regarding "specific and unique" information that will be at the top of the page.

Content ratio per page? : What percentage of duplicate content is allowed per page before you are dinged or penalized.

Thank you,

Utah Tiger

[EGOL]

If there is a small amount of duplicate content on the bottom of some pages there should not be a problem.  I have small cross-selling blurbs on the bottom of lots of pages on multiple sites.  These blurbs are generally small in word count when compared to the other content on the same page.

Lots of people do this.  I think that google might view that as part of your "content wrapper".

I'm not going to say percentages.  The more important thing is that the top content  on your pages is unique and substantive.