: Duplicate / Similar content across many articles So I am building my website up, so far so good, only 2 categories and about 40 articles. Each category is different and several of the articles

@Miguel251

The worst that will happen is Google will throw the pages it perceives as duplicates into their omitted index/sandbox (aka they won't really rank). This is NOT a case where you will be penalized. Penalties only happen across domains (e.g. if you had duplicate content on two different websites).

I am mostly certain you won't have any real issues. I have worked with large clients who have many franchise location pages, all of which share roughly the same info, save for specifics like address, phone, etc, and they have never been omitted from Google's index.

You're fine.

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@Sarah324

It should be ok. Having similar/duplicate content on pages is common and normal. Especially product pages. As long as it does not make up a significant portion of the content you should be alright.

Of course the question is "how much is too much"? The majority of your content is original (right?) and unique plus the similar/duplicate content isn't keyword stuff but relevant product information. In my estimation this shouldn't be an issue for your site.

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