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Working on a new website, that has lots of pages with people's info and bio. Because of this, it contains a lot of common text on each person's page.

example.com/person1 contains:

  • Height: his height
  • Weight:his weight
  • Country: USA/etc
  • Birthday:
  • Age:

And lots of other common fields.

example.com/person2 contains all of the same fields but with different values.

Each page has on the top a few paragraphs describing that person, but all the other fields are the same.

Could this cause duplicate content? As the same fields/words are on each and every page.

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Such pages would be spotted rather as thin content and soft-404, as duplicated content. I would noindex them.

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  • But as i said , there is a different description on each page. But under the description there are these standard fields. These sections are about 20% of the total text on that page. But it is always the same as on the other pages. – ClawDuda Sep 22 '15 at 13:59
  • I'd strongly take Evgeniy's advice unless your description on each page is substantially different compared to the rest of the pages. I'd also use a website to check pages for duplicate content. Siteliner is good but it only checks a site once a month for free. – Mike -- No longer here Sep 22 '15 at 19:27