Duplicate Promotional Text At Bottom Of Pages

[cooldogs]

I just recently revised a 30 page site, all the pages are informative, offer valuable unique information to the reader. The length of each page varies as well.

At the bottom of every page is a 4 line promo to encourage visitors to visit other areas of the site. The promo text with a row of photos just underneath it is pretty much the same on each page. That, the header and the navigation part of the html are the only thing repeated.

Is this enough to get me in trouble with Google, will they consider this a duplicate penalty violation or bring the rankings down.

[tedster]

#1 - Concerning duplicate content "penalty" - see [webmasterworld.com...] "You can help your fellow webmasters by not perpetuating the myth of duplicate content penalties! The remedies for duplicate content are entirely within your control."

#2 - You "may be" blurring the relevance signals for the individual pages by using common boilerplate on every page. See [webmasterworld.com...] with comments from Google's Adam Lasnik.