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[poke1]

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[davebuts]

Hi poke1,

What percentage of your page content are these duplicated sentences?

If it's 2 sentences out of a 50, I think you'll be fine. If its 2/3, you may want to look at improving the value/quality of those pages.

It's hard to say without looking at the site.

HOWEVER, I think you identified your main problem when you said that your website "produces high-quality automatically generated textual content".

Spun/automatically generated content is always a bad idea and would be a Panda issue, no matter how good you think the automatically generated content is.

I'd recommend that you stop using this automatically generated content and start creating your own valuable content.

Cheers,

David

[Vettyy]

According to John Muller and Google's Andrey Lipattsev, there isn't a Google penalty for duplicate text across a website.

You'll find they answered this question in a Google hangout > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxCAVmXfVyI&feature=youtu.be the first question they answer is "is there a penalty for duplicate content" and continue with even more insight.

Read the article I've linked to below if you don't want to watch the entire thing, it breaks down a Google Hangout above > http://digitaltransformation.com.au/blog/seo/duplicate-content-doesnt-matter/

David Butler's response is spot on though, I would definitely be looking at what is on your page, even if the duplicate text is relevant, you need to one up it and include something else or add additional information to make it more valuable than just common text across pages.

I would still look into other area's of your website as well content is just one of many influences.

[seoman10]

I'm always dubious of duplicate site content, automatically generated content is a bad idea. Google will pick up on that like shot.

I would guess it's a combination of both duplicate content and automatically generated content.

I have yet to see an actual penalty for duplicated on site content, although I guess it could happen.  But what I have seen is that Google will be less favourable to your site if there is a substantial amount of duplicate content.