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Can product descriptions be considered duplicate content?

 
 

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Question: “Can product descriptions be considered duplicate content?”

Answer: Definitely. Try to create some unique content for the products you sell and don't just rely on a affiliate feed and a fly-by-night website.
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Mani from Delhi asks: „Are product description pages on an e-commerce site termed as duplicate content, if the same product description appears on other sites? It does happen for many branded products.“

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Mani you're absolutely right, it does happen and most of the time when it happens, it's because that's not original content. So if you get an affiliate feed and it might have images, it might not have images and you have the same content on your page, your e-commerce product page, as 400 other sites, it's hard to distinguish yourself.

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You have to ask: where is my value add; what does my affiliate site or my site, that doesn't have original content, add compared to these other hundreds of sites. So, whenever possible, I urge you to try to have original content, try to have a really unique value add. Don't just take an affiliate feed, create a site thats 'fly-by-night' and now, there's no reason why anybody wants to stumble on your site.

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So typically its best if you can find some way to have some kind of unique angle and not just the exact same stuff that everybody else has on their webpage as well.