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Just set up my Froogle, Google feed from my website. Now I will be listing some of the same widgets on other sites for website advertising purposes. I will generally only have one of the widgets listed even though I will be listing the same widget in 2 or 3 places. Not saying this well.
I have a Roseville vase. Just one. I will list this vase in 3 different venues, when it sells, I will remove it from the other 2. I know it is risky but I plan to try it.
Now, the question is this:
Do I need to change anything in the title and or the body of the listing so that Google does not read these as duplicate postings? I do not want to kill my listings in Google by making duplicates. IS this an issue? If so, will changing the title only solve it?
Thanks,
Jo
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From my experience, you are just fine.
At one point I had several hundred identical listings running on Ebay (store), Yahoo, Ioffer, and my website - and each one came up just fine in a Google search.
I think there are enough differences in each site so that the page was seen as clearly different - even though the items title and description was the same.
Think of all the vendors selling a particular brand of printer - just about all of them use the same exact title, description, and even picture, yet they all show up on Google.
I think what they are looking for are identical "pages" - not identical "products".
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Google does "look" for duplicate content PAGE WIDE... meaning all aspects of the web page are subject to duplicate content penalty. Merely changing the title may delay, but not necessarily immunize your pages from a duplicate content penalty.
The good thing is, 2-3 pages probably wouldn't be considered SPAM by google... they would simply index one page and not the other (or other two). Then again, as secret as G's algo's are... none may be penalized.
You want the additional exposure of selling on multiple venues... go for it!
On a side note (not really pertaining to your question), nothing you do in Froogle (now Base) will affect your SERP's at Google... or anywhere else, I don't believe.
Cheers
(ETA)
SNIPED!
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Thanks, guys! I didn't want to shoot myself in the foot right off the bat. I'm SO good at doing that.
I'll be back in a few days looking for links too. Have to get that page set up first but I'm realllly close.
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I agree with Tradeguy. Been doing that for years without a problem.
Mike
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HI Mike!!!
Thanks for the added input. Been thinking about you and hoping things are ok there.
Jo