I have a same paragraph appearing on two webpages of my site!

[Sam09schulz]

is it gonna affect rankings

if so what should be done

thanks

[Chris.Menke]

Sam,

Unless that paragraph is a large portion of the copy on both pages and/or is prominent at the top of your page, the impact on rankings will be nil for one page and maybe just a tiny bit for the other page.

[Vanderlindemedia]

https://moz.com/learn/seo/canonicalization

[Chris.Menke]

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[Chris.Menke]

Good catch!

[Sam09schulz]

well on first page i have some 650 words  and it is first paragraph of 70 words

on other page where it is appearing  that page has 400 words and  that 70 word copy is appearing  at bottom.

[Chris.Menke]

Still, one of these pages  has to rank huger than the other--they can't both rank exactly the same.

[Vanderlindemedia]

You could assign a priority to the page by using your sitemap, but on the other hand the priority is sometimes completely up to google.