Will using online forum reviews create duplicate content issue?
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We are looking at having a text box of 'What customers say' on our product pages using reviews written about us online to remain factual and wanted to know if this will create duplicate content issues?
Thanks in advance.
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Apologies I didn't explain myself very well. I meant issues relating to search engines finding matching content on two separate websites. Will this have any SEO implications as effectively we are 'plagiarising' the content in the eyes of the bots right even though it is just customer opinion of our own products?
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Apologies I didn't explain myself very well. I meant issues relating to search engines finding matching content on two separate websites. Will this have any SEO implications as effectively we are 'plagiarising' the content in the eyes of the bots right even though it is just customer opinion of our own products?
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A page won't be considered a duplicate unless a substantial amount of its content is repeated on another page.
If this text box is say, the size of a Wordpress widget, you'll have nothing to worry about.
Are you planning to use the same customer quotes one every page or do you have different ones for different products? The latter would be better, but it shouldn't be an issue unless this text box is going to take up a large chunk of the page.
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As long as your comments don't show up anywhere else on your site, there shouldn't be any duplicate content problems.
The next time that page is crawled, the comment just appears below the content.
Jared
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