Can I add a paragraph of blog content to a product page?

[Brocberry]

I have a great blog post about one of my products, which means there's some copy in the blog that I would like in the product page. It would constitute perhaps 5% of the copy on the product page if I copied it.

[TataSinke]

Hi there

In my opinion, i dont see why not. An aditional description on your product page is a great feature as for users and for bots, but if you are worried about duplicate content, maybe you could summarize the blog and include the key features (words) of your product and link the whole blogpost to the original blog?

hope this helps

cheers!

[MarieHaynes]

No one knows exactly how much of a page has to be duplicated before Google sees the page as a duplicated page.  However, if your blog post is only 5% of the copy on the page and the rest of the page has good unique content I can't see this being a problem.

[Brocberry]

Hi

The blog post links to the product page and the product page links to the blog.

I haven't included it as an additional description, I have taken one or two paragraphs from the blog and worked them into the original product copy.

[TataSinke]

Hi again

As for the linking part - it's fine. Of course.

And as Marie has stated below, no one know when Google flags someting ''duplicate''. Just try to avoid a lot of copy  and all would be good, imo

Although, presonaly, i would write a brand new description using the info from the blogpost.

Cheers

ps. Could you paste the link to your product page?

[Brocberry]

Thanks Sinisa, I have sent the link by private message. An example of duplicate content contains "harmonic techniques".

[JarnoNijzing]

Brocberry,

have you thought about rel=canonical and specify the blog as original? Or have you thought about it and  considered it not to be an option?

This could solve your entire problem and the content is not considered to be duplicate in any case.

kind regards

Jarno

[Brocberry]

Hi Jarno

I would lose my product page from SERPS and the blog is not the canonical page for 95% of the product page's content.

[TataSinke]

You are most welcome

If you have any more questions, just ping me. ill try my best to answer.

cheers!