: Part of content is available in another page. Does that qualify as duplicate? Possible Duplicate: What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?

@Yeniel560

Since you only have the start of the content on the product page, the full stream page is not duplicate content (not by a long shot). It's no different from a blog showing the introduction to their posts on the home page - nothing to worry about.

However, from the sound of it the stream page is just a bunch of text without your design/branding surrounding it. In which case, you may not want users stumbling upon those pages in search results (and not knowing what site they are on), so you may consider blocking the stream pages from search engines using robots.txt.

An ideal solution in my opinion would be to add your design to the stream pages so that they fit within your site. Link to those from the product page, but set the AJAX to grab the basic version. You could call e.g. /stream/product?keyword=name-of-product&mode=ajax

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@Bryan171

Wow what an interesting problem? It would be worth testing but I reckon over a large body of product pages that would be duplicate content and rel=canonical wouldn't cut it here.

Is there anyway you can put in a bit of JS that is executed as an onclick event when the "MORE" button is pushed that will append the ajax request url so the call can be made but otherwise wouldn@t be available until the "MORE" link is clicked?

That way when the search engine spider comes along it won't be able to execute the JS that causes the onclick event, the link will be empty, it won't be able to follow it and therefore can't be crawled.

You have the UX issue of someone who doesn't have JS enabled won't be able to follow the link but you can have an overlay that advises people to have JS enable to solve that one.

This pure conjecture by the way but it sounds like an interesting problem. Anyone got any other ideas?

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