: Author bio on all pages - is it duplicate content? In a website with user generated content, I provide an author bio under every article on the site. The author bio will be the same under

@Kaufman445

If your website hosts thin content then a snippet such as an author bio can potentially be considered as duplicate content. If you have a decent amount of indexable content on the page then the author bio will not meet the threshold for duplicate content (which will be a % of the page's content that a search engine can index).

Providing you're publishing worthwhile content that is significantly longer than the average author bio on your website then there is likely nothing to worry about.

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@YK1175434

Theoretically, it can be considered as duplicate content but in practice, I don't think it can penalize your site on SEO-wise.

To minimize the risks:


for pages with thin content (I think about Haiku), ask your users more content about it (for example explaining where the Haiku comes from, why it has been created, in which case it can be useful to remember it, etc.)
ask your users to use/write a short and condensed version of their bio (for example 3 sentences max)

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