Duplicate Content on our own website

[Alexogilvie]

Our website sells tickets for events. We also have an news articles section with information about events / artists / venues.

From time to time we release a product page and a related news article on a separate page. Some of the content in the news article would be perfect for our product page. Essentially its our product page we want too rank.

Would it harm our SEO if we had some of the same content on both of these pages?

[TranslateMediaLtd]

The best way to solve this issue is to mark these pages as duplicates by using the rel="canonical" link element,

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en

[dotfly]

The chances that this might have a negative effect are not bad... dont use content (in the meaning of text in your case) twice... even not partially. Its not that complicated to rewrite a text so that it`s not duplicate content. AVOID DC by all means!

[Alexogilvie]

Thanks for that, but technically they are not duplicates... one page is the product sales page and the another is a news article about the event itself. Only some off the content could be used... so these pages are not duplicates...

i only want too use some off the content?

[dotfly]

Do you know software to check texts for plagiarism? Copyscape or plagscan e.g.?

Take "some off that content" from the original source on your site, check this using plagiarism software and take a look at the result...

If it indicates, that these parts exist already than it`s DC...

The software shows you similarities in percent... if it`s too high then the chances are very good that Google will regard it as DC as well.