PDF Instructions come up in Crawl report as Duplicate Content

[JustinBSLW]

Hello,

My ecommerce site has many PDF instruction pages that are being marked as duplicate content in the site crawl.

Each page has a different title, and then a PDF displayed in an iframe with a link back to the previous page & to the category that the product is placed in. Should I add text to the pages to help differentiate them?

I included a screenshot of the code that is on all the pages.

Thanks!

Justin

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[Lumina]

Yes, you absolutely should add unique text to each of these pages. Not only so that they aren't flagged as duplicate, but because it's always an SEO benefit to have more good content. If you don't have the capacity to write such content, however, you may want to remove them from indexation.

The reason that these pages are being flagged as duplicates is that Google isn't parsing these PDFs. Which means that, all Google and others see are pages with no content and an iframe. It's also pertinent to note that Moz will flag anything with more than 90% overlap as a duplication.

I hope this helps!