Duplicate content warning for a hierarchy structure?

[westsaddle]

I have a series of pages on my website organized in a hierarchy, let's simplify it to say parent pages and child pages.

Each of the child pages has product listings, and an introduction at the top (along with an image) explaining their importance, why they're grouped together, providing related information, etc.
The parent page has a list of all of its child pages and a copy of their introductions next to the child page's title and image thumbnail.

Moz is throwing up duplicate content warnings for all of these pages. Is this an actual SEO issue, or is the warning being overzealous?
Each child page has tons of its own content, and each parent page has the introductions from a bunch of child pages, so any single introduction is never the only content on the page.

Thanks in advance!

[Whebb]

Hello West,

Are there parent pages that are very similar or have the exact same child pages listed? This would be the only thing that I could see as causing a duplicate content warning, and even then it is still just a warning that something may be duplicate. As long as those parent pages do not have the same children listed on them you should be alright IMO.

Hope that helps.

[westsaddle]

Thank you for your response!

No parent pages share child pages, and content even for the few similarly themed pages we do have was carefully written to not be duplicated.

The text on top of every child page does appear on its parent page, so there is duplicate content, but it's the sort of duplicate content that's helpful to a customer.

[Whebb]

In my experience duplicate content is more about two pages with 100% identical content and different URLs, which is not the case here.  In this case all that is duplicate is a paragraph on the parent page. I would not be concerned with this and as you stated it is necessary information for the consumer.

If you have not read this article on duplicate content already, it may be a good article to get familiar with.

[westsaddle]

Thank you!

Yeah, even if Google links to "the wrong one," either page is still relevant, or it wouldn't have the text in the first place.