I have 3 pages with similar text content.For example/hardwell/top-songs//hardwell/latest-songs//hardwell/similar-djs/The main text content of the page is the biography on the top. It is the same for all the 3 pages. But the main content of the page is different, even though it is not text-heavy. Would google penalize me for this? How should one handle the SEO in such a case?In general how should SEO be dealt with in cases where the website is not text-heavy, eg. a music discovery website?
How to handle SEO for pages with similar textual content?
seo;google
I took a look at your page.If only the lists change, then these will likely be seen as duplicate. If there is enough overlap in the lists, this can get you into dangerous areas. Even if the lists are not identical, it is possible that they will weigh less than the regular content on the page and still may be seen as duplicate. This is because at one point, spammers used lists extensively to make pages appear different. It is always better to be safe than sorry. You can always link to the other pages and make each page stand out for searches such as latest songs.Google does not compare pages in a linear fashion anymore. It uses semantic scores and compares pages using these scores. The reason for this is simple. For a long time, spammers just reorganized the content to escape duplicate content issues and put countless useless pages into the SERPs. This is easily defeated by looking at how pages score using semantics. Any set of pages that are too similar will be seen as duplicate.If this is the case, then you should just pick one and use a canonical tag on all the similar pages to point to the one you chose.This page tells you more than you need to know about canonical tags, but worth checking out: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=enHere is an example from that page:<link rel=canonical href=https://blog.example.com/dresses/green-dresses-are-awesome />