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Partial Duplicate Content
Hello All,
First off, your expertise and advice is always appreciated.
I know Google frowns on duplicate content. What about partial duplicate content? What I mean is, I have about 100 pages on my website, one for each location in my area. Each page contains unique content per that area (libraries, tutors available, etc) but the header and initial paragraph is very similar among these pages.
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It depends on the amount of content on each page in my view, for example I used to run a directory that had the first paragraph saying "you have found xx results for schools in yyy, please click on any of the results for more information" (or something along those lines) plus some other general stuff that appeared on each page and this part of the content was followed by a listing of schools that, obviously, was different for each search and varied between say 20 schools and 70 schools.
Google did not seem to object to the fact that the opening paragraph was almost the same on every results page with many of the results pages featuring well in the SERPs. Of course we made sure that the meta title and descriptions were unique on each page and I believe that this helped.
*edit* This was for a directory of UK schools and generated results by county or town or postcode (& distance) so there were 1,000's of possible pages.
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You must create 100% original content for each page. 100 nearly duplicate paragraphs will do you no good at all.
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Originally Posted by mtreidl
Hello All,
First off, your expertise and advice is always appreciated.
I know Google frowns on duplicate content. What about partial duplicate content? What I mean is, I have about 100 pages on my website, one for each location in my area. Each page contains unique content per that area (libraries, tutors available, etc) but the header and initial paragraph is very similar among these pages.
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