Magento Duplicate Content Question - HELP!

[LeapOfBelief]

In Magento, when entering product information, does the short description have to be different than the meta description? If they are both the same is this considered duplicate content?

Thanks for the help!!!

[Ray-pp]

Regardless of the platform, you do not need to worry about meta description being duplicate content from your page content. Meta descriptions are used to help CTR from the SERPs.

However, you shouldn't have duplicate meta descriptions across multiple pages.

[LeapOfBelief]

Thanks for the quick response!

[MoosaHemani]

True, no matter what the platform is if the Meta description is identical to the description of the product on the page it will not be considered as duplicate content but if the product page content is identical to some other page within or outside the website that will be considered as duplicate content.

Hope this helps!