Is this duplicate content okay?

[optimalwebinc]

We have a client who wants to rank locally, nationally and internationally for their products.

I wrote a line that goes, "We can ship our products to you whether you’re here in Illinois, nationwide, or international."

I added that line after a paragraph or two of unique product description on each of their 30-odd product pages.  Will this damage their ranking?

I tried researching this but only found full page duplicate content topics.  Any advice would be great.

[benjaminspak]

Hi Brandon,

Great question!

• Is it duplicate content? Yes.
• Is it good for your users and sales? Yes

As long as you are doing other things to build your client's brand, it's such a small thing Google is not going to give you a huge penalty.

If I have to put it on a scale of 0-100 of negative impact on your site, I'd give it a .05

[SEOKeith]

I would not worry about it... That's like saying "For next day delivery lease make sure you order before 3pm monday - friday." - which is completely legit.

It's when you have two pages that are almost the same you run into issues, or two urls for one page Or you are copying content from other sites.