| Is it considered duplicate content when you use product descriptions from a manufacture of a product you sell | just learning2 | 7/1/12 8:18 AM | I was just wondering if using the content provided by the manufacture of a product you sell is considered duplicate content? For example, If I sell a popular brand of vitamin at my online store and I use the content they give all retailers to explai |
| Re: Is it considered duplicate content when you use product descriptions from a manufacture of a product you sell | webado | 7/1/12 8:56 AM | You are supposed to add a considerable quantity of your own well written unique content to supplement the standard stuff everybody has.If you cannot do that your site has no chance on the web. Those that can do it properly and are first to the finish |
| Re: Is it considered duplicate content when you use product descriptions from a manufacture of a product you sell | just learning2 | 7/1/12 11:26 AM | So If you have a store that sells 200 different brands and each brand has 30 products, you are supposed to rewrite the information about the product? How can we write better product information than the vendor that provided it about its own product? |
| Re: Is it considered duplicate content when you use product descriptions from a manufacture of a product you sell | just learning2 | 7/1/12 3:19 PM | Anyone? |
| Re: Is it considered duplicate content when you use product descriptions from a manufacture of a product you sell | just learning2 | 7/2/12 9:26 AM | Sorry to bump this up, but I have been trying to find an answer for this and cant seem to find anything on this subject to clarify my problem. Thanks in advance and sorry for the bump |
| Re: Is it considered duplicate content when you use product descriptions from a manufacture of a product you sell | Phil Payne | 7/2/12 9:28 AM | You've had an answer - Christina (webado) answered you pretty much immediately. There's nothing to add. |
| Re: Is it considered duplicate content when you use product descriptions from a manufacture of a product you sell | KORPG Kevin | 7/2/12 9:34 AM | Like most things, it depends. Are you intending to rank for terms related to the products? If yes, then you should try to make your content stand out from the rest of those thousands of sites. If not, then the only duplicate content penalty you shoul |
| Re: Is it considered duplicate content when you use product descriptions from a manufacture of a product you sell | just learning2 | 7/2/12 10:53 AM | Thanks KORPGK! That makes a lot more sense. I was not asking about trying to rank for those keywords, I was asking if my website as a whole would be penalized for having the manufactures provided content. |