Duplicate Content on Product Pages

[ilyaelbert]

Hello I'm currently working on two sites and I had some general question's about duplicate content. For the first one each page is a different location, but the wording is identical on each; ie it says Instant Remote Support for Critical Issues, Same Day Onsite Support with a 3-4 hour response time, etc. Would I get penalized for this?

Another  question i have is, we offer Antivirus support  for providers ie Norton, AVG,Bit Defender etc. I was wondering if we will get penalized for having the same first paragraph with only changing the name of the virus provider on each page?

My last question is we provide services for multiple city's and towns in various states. Will I get penalized for having the same content on each page, such as towns and producuts and services we provide? Thanks.

[NakulGoyal]

How much other unique content is there on the page (if any) ? Judging by your question, it does not sound like there's a much bigger piece of content that's unique to this page only. So if you have 1-2 paragraphs of sales pitch which is duplicate or similar to the sales pitch or promotional copy on other pages, it's okay if the ratio of the duplicate snippet is small. If however it's a big proportion, then it's thin content and the site may drop off in the SERPS. I would recommend doing a complete SEO Audit, see what you are doing, how you are ranking, what the competition is doing and how they are ranking and create an SEO roadmap to follow. I hope this helps.

[ilyaelbert]

Thank you for the reply Nakul. There is not really that much unique content on the site usually just a different paragraph or a few different words on each page. would it be a good idea to maybe use rel=cannocial for certain pages, or should I stay away from that? Thanks.

[NakulGoyal]

Ilya, pm or post the URL and I can have a quick look at it. Give me an example of 1-2 pages where you think there should be a canonical tag or are duplicate and I can let you know what I think.

[ilyaelbert]

Okay here are two links from one  of the sites:

http://www.allitsupported.com/atlanta-it-support

http://www.allitsupported.com/chicago-it-support

As you can see the duplicate content is on both pages as well as all the location pages. I'm not really sure where to use the rel=cannoical tag for this site? Also we need all the duplicate content ,so im not really sure what to do in that aspect as well?

The other links are here:

http://www.computerrepairservicesusa.com/residential/antivirus-support/agnitum/

http://www.computerrepairservicesusa.com/residential/antivirus-support/agnitum/

http://www.computerrepairservicesusa.com/delaware/computer-repair-delaware/

http://www.computerrepairservicesusa.com/connecticut/computer-repair-connecticut/

http://www.computerrepairservicesusa.com/illinois/city/computer-repair-bondville/

http://www.computerrepairservicesusa.com/illinois/city/computer-repair-cleveland/

As you can see for the first two links, the first paragraph is the same with just one word differing. While the description of the vendor is unique I'm not really sure what to do because we need all the content.  i'm not postive where the rel=cannoical would go in this situation?

As you can see for the third and fourth links, there is numerous duplicate content such as, towns,zip codes, and the first quater of the page. I'm not really sure what to do because we need all of the content. Also i'm not sure where to use the rel= cannoical in this situation?

For the five and sixth link this is universal across all the towns and city's. What I mean by this is the first quarter of the page is duplicate as well as the towns' are all duplicate to that specific state. Once again we need all the content, so i'm not really sure where to put the rel= cannoical on this page. I hope that is not confusing to you. It is a bit hard to explain over the text thanks.