Regarding internal duplicate content
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Suppose two of my webpages from the same site are having 30% to 35% common content. The reason behind this common content is that I put same data and images (in the main content area) since both pages are partially related. But, title tag, meta description, h1 tag, urls are different.
My questions areCan Google consider it as duplicate content?
Can it hamper the ranking of my pages ?
How can I deal with it? -
@b-me If your website is an ecommerce, it is normal to have some duplicate content, because you usually repeat texts about sends, guaranty, etc. That wouldn't be a big problem, but it's always advisable to minimize duplicate texts. Can you reduce it, use icons...? Also, try to make longer descriptions so the percentage of duplicate content is reduced.
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