Hi guy's, if we have multiple products on one page with similar descriptions but not exactly the same, will it be seen as duplicate content? The thing is we have products that's different sizes, with different colors which we need to display on the same page for better UX so we can't just display one and have all the sizes and colors on that page. So we will need to display the different sizes, then when you go to that size product you can have the different colors of that size. We need to write different descriptions for each of them(which is incredibly hard seeing as it's the same product just another size) to prevent duplicate content. We were thinking of using the same unique description on all the pages then just use canonical tags to point to one, but the problem with that is that only one of the sizes will show up in the SERP and we need all to show up in search, not just the one. Any suggestions will be appreciated
This is not a duplicated content. Of course you can rewrite it if you have time, but if it's on the SAME domain it shouldn't be a problem!
It is not considered duplicate content. It will only be considered when your content appears on another site.
Most of the ecommerce/shopping sites have same problem. If you have a long description of the products and using whole description as it is, in all size of the the products then it may create problem. Even you should not too much worry about it as it is a shopping site. These days, most of the shared content on social sites like facebook, twitter etc. is duplicate and have been published on other sites earlier but search engines don't consider it as duplicate content.