Duplicate Content on Category Pages

[EcomLkwd]

Hi Everyone,

I have a few category pages within a category for my eCommerce store and I've recently started writing a short description for each. However a lot of these paragraphs can be replicated for the same category. For  instance '1 Inch thickness' I'll show all the information, and it'll be very similar to '2 inch thickness' but obviously one is 1 inch and one is 2 inch so I would only be changing one keyword and that is the thickness.

I feel that this is helping customers because it has all the information in each category e.g. how to filter your choices. But it might be duplicate content.

What would you recommend?

[BlueprintMarketing]

What type of content management system are you using? If it's WordPress Yoast WordPress SEO would fix this issue.

http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/

or

magento

http://yoast.com/articles/magento-seo/

Let me know if you're using a different content management system as I can offer different ways of helping.

Duplicate content will simply be ignored unfortunately by Google. Will not get ranking you want. The important thing to do is to write very very different descriptions of your product especially keep it far away from what manufacturer uses as their domain trust is probably higher than what your stores is using. Scribecontent.com is excellent tool for this. Another method is to use yoast to fix magento or WP

Sincerely,

Thomas

[EcomLkwd]

I don't think you are understanding my question, I am creating descriptions for different categories that only have one different keyword.  I want to make sure this isn't considered duplicate content, and if it is, what should I do?

[BlueprintMarketing]

Hi Rachel,

Thank you for clarifying that for me. If you are creating multiple categories and they only have one keyword to separate them would be considered duplicate content by Google my answer would yes it would. That's why you have to make your descriptions much different than the existing descriptions for any other categories.

I know it is hard using a different description when one might be the perfect fit. However Google does care about this thing and it would lead to duplicate content issues.

I hope this has been of help sincerely,

Thomas