Duplicate Content would it effect market based websites?

[Bronco78th]

Hi All,

Some of you may remember I posted a thread awhile ago asking if products descriptions are necessary (assuming you have a detailed Spec list) and I got the jist they certainly are....

I hated writing descriptions....

Now a couple of months down the line ive done a couple of online courses which are helping/have helped and given me some great ideas. Im beginning to approach them with a different mind set and while I still find them difficult and I still don't particularly enjoy doing them they are becoming easier.

I have my website which has been my main focus for these developments. But I also Sell on Etsy and might drop afew items into eBay and/or Amazon in the future.

Im just wondering if I straight up copied the descriptions (that im finally happy with) from my website and pasted on to these market place websites would they get flagged as duplicate content and thus ranked lower in the search engines? Or Is this effect going to be so minimal there is just no point in worrying about it?

Kind Regards,
John

 

[fisicx]

I depends on how well the products already rank on those platforms. Ideally you don't want the amazon/etsy listing to appear on Google, you only want your site to be on page one for those products.

Just do a couple of products and see what happens. If your ranking tanks you will know that google doesn't like what you are doing.

 

[Bronco78th]

Cheers Fisicx Will do that.

Having done abit of further investigation Etsy will not list your products on google unless you tell them to. They will only list and if you choose to do so advertise within the confines of the Etsy system. So On that basis I assume with etsy its probably not a problem.

Ebay and Amazon which definitely do submit listings to google it maybe a problem but im not at that point on finding out just yet.

John

 

[Cube Digital]

I find the best and cheapest way to deal with this is to go to Upwork and hire writers to rewrite the product description - keeping all the information but just using different words. It can be fairly cost-effective.

 

[antropy]

I find the best and cheapest way to deal with this is to go to Upwork and hire writers to rewrite the product description - keeping all the information but just using different words. It can be fairly cost-effective.

You could also use something like this: https://spinbot.com/

 

[Anderz]

Dublicate content is on one website having the same stuff on different pages.

Maybe I am wrong but I am sure I will be corrected.

 

[GaBRiWaZ]

Be careful with that if the descriptions are well optimized (I think on keywords) on your store, write different descriptions to eBay / Amazon. I read in a lot of forums, that scraping product info from other sites to Amazon/eBay is not a good strategy. + Read about eBay SEO, because it's a different platform need some different tricks if you want to achieve success with your products.

 

[LucyTex]

Yes Google is smart enough to detect duplicate content and if you just copy other peoples descriptions why should Google rank your website instead of anyone else's (including the original author). If you write your own content you will have a huge SEO advantage.

 

[Scott TC]

You can get heavily marked down by Google for having multiple hundreds/thousands of product pages that all look the same (duplicate content). Which I think is grossly unfair, when you consider somebody selling shower trays or white sinks for example. They may carry hundreds of products which are different sizes of the same product name and description, sometimes with each variation having its own URL. We just use one central URL page to describe the product once, then tell Google not to index all the other similar URL's. Worked a treat for our main product, top three on Google for over 2000 models when previously we were page 4-5 with duplicate content issues.

 

[fisicx]

They may carry hundreds of products which are different sizes of the same product name and description, sometimes with each variation having its own URL.

Then you are doing it wrong.

Put all the variants on one page - better UX and better for SEO.

 

[Kaapo Jed]

Yes, you didn't use duplicate content on it when duplicate content is present, the website can suffer rankings and traffic losses and maybe Google penalized the website. It may occur internally and externally content duplicity issue, So use the different description on each products page.

 

[davidlee21]

Yes, If you copy the descriptions and paste on your website. Then it's a copied content and it will affect SEO.