if listing is in multiple categories, is this duplicate content?

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  • January 19, 2016 at 5:14 pm #69365

    step8601
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    many of my business listings will fit into multiple categories

    if a listing is in more than one category, would this be considered duplicate content?

    what would be the best way to approach this so that my directory is useful, focused but not restrictive, but keeps google happy

    thanks

    January 19, 2016 at 5:27 pm #69369

    Paolo
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    The single listing never, the archive pages could if you have several categories, all showing the exact same listings.

    For example you have 2 categories:

    Clubs and Discos.

    Then you have 3 listings all assigned to both Clubs and Discos catgeory, when visiting them, both archive pages will be almost identical.

    In that case Google could flag them as duplicate.

    Best solution would be to merge the 2 categories into 1. Clubs & Discos.

    Hope this helps,

    Thanks

    January 19, 2016 at 5:38 pm #69374

    step8601
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    ah, very interesting, many thanks

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