Social Media Profile and Website content dupe content issues ?

[Dan-Lawrence]

Is there a dupe content issue if your social media profiles and website have same content/copy ?

For example if you have written great copy for your website home page then literally copy & paste that into your G+ co page introduction (since sums everything up perfectly and don't want to change it) would that have a negative effect or be perfectly ok ?

cheers

dan

[Kara.Wallace]

Personally, I would try and mix it up. From a user standpoint, if I am on your Google+ page and am wicked impressed, then decide to visit your website and am greeted with the EXACT SAME TEXT... boring. It would seem to me as a user that you just slapped up the Google+ site just to have it.

That said, Matt Cutts and SearchEngineLand.com say, "...duplicate content issues are rarely a penalty. It is more about Google knowing which page they should rank and which page they should not. Google doesn’t want to show the same content to searchers for the same query; they do like to diversify the results to their searchers."

So will you get into trouble - No.

Will Google rank your homepage higher than your Google+ page - It should.

Will your users have a fantastic experience - Probably not.

Hope this helps.

Mike

[Dan-Lawrence]

Thanks for commenting Mike

Definately intend to mix it up a bit but just wanted to check by how much/needed to avoid potential dupe issues. But yes will try and tailor it for G+ users so slightly different messaging and not a fax of the home page

cheers

dan