I'm setting up my online store in wordpress/woocommerce and want to avoid duplicate content.

[melinmellow]

Hi Mozers,

Apparently I'm using unique content in the short description area and it displays on the pages next to the product photo which is great how it is, but adding informational description repeating on every product page going to hurt us in SEO?

A. See here an actual product - (flagged for thin content in OSE)
B. This is how i would like to set each product page to improve them: See here a sample product with additional information/content.
Here's my question: Setting my product pages to the B version would be considered as duplicate content by google?

[ChrisAshton]

It's not so much that this is going to hurt you but it also won't really help. You're far better off putting the effort into creating genuinely helpful content for each one. It's time-consuming but you only get out what you put in!

You're not going to get a manual penalty for this sort of thing but it isn't exactly a great quality signal to have most pages on your site showing the same content over and over.