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{"id":955,"date":"2011-07-14T03:23:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T07:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/?p=955"},"modified":"2011-07-14T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T10:36:12","slug":"can-product-descriptions-be-considered-duplicate-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/can-product-descriptions-be-considered-duplicate-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Can product descriptions be considered duplicate content?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"349\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z07IfCtYbLw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"349\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/z07IfCtYbLw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Mani from Delhi asks, &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mani, you are absolutely right, it does happen. Most of the time it happens because that&#8217;s not the original content. So if you got an affiliate feed that might have images that might not have images, the same content on your page, your e-commerce product page as 400 other sites. It is really hard to distinguish yourself; you have to ask, where is my value ad? What is my affiliate site or my site that doesn&#8217;t have original content? And compare it to these other 100 of sites. So whenever possible, I urge you to try to have original content, try to have a really unique value ad don&#8217;t just take an affiliate feed create a site that&#8217;ll fly by night and now there is no reason why anybody wants to assemble on your site. So typically it&#8217;s best if it&#8217;s possible to find some kind of unique angle and not just the exact same stuff that everybody else has in their webpage as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mani from Delhi asks, &#8220;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.&#8221; Mani, you are absolutely right, it does happen. Most of the time it happens because that&#8217;s not the original content. So if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattcutts-video-transcript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}