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I have a problem that I can't seem to find an answer for anywhere. I am a distributor and I sell products of different manufacturers on my website.

Now, I am creating a new webpage where I am mentioning some of the items that I am buying from manufacturer brand. I want to include a spec sheet(a pdf attachment) on my website but it's a long specification sheet and the manufacturer already has it on their website. So what I am going to do is, copy that pdf attachment spec sheet and share it on my website.

Will google punish me for that and is it bad for SEO?

user122376
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  • I'd recommend disallowing the spec sheet from being crawled, but even it Googlebot crawls it, it will detect it as a duplicate from the manufacturer and choose not to index the copy on your site. It won't hurt the rest of your site at all. – Stephen Ostermiller Aug 19 '21 at 12:50
  • But if the google bot indexes the page, it will see as duplicate content, right? So if Google thinks it is a bad practice, that would end up hurting my SEO ranking on Google which would have a big impact on my website as my business heavily depends on google ads. – user122376 Aug 19 '21 at 17:05
  • If it is in a separate PDF it won't affect your page. In any case, duplicate content rarely hurts the SEO of unique content. Google only punishes sites for egregiously spammy duplicate content. – Stephen Ostermiller Aug 19 '21 at 17:13
  • What do you mean when you say seperate pdf?

    I am creating a button and users are able to open that pdf attachment within the page by clicking the button.

     – user122376 Aug 23 '21 at 15:19

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