Hi ... I want to setup a software website that sells software through affiliate program . All program names/descriptions are from their database . I think the website will be penalized for dupe . Any recommendations not to allow this ? I can't rewrite all program descriptions (12.000+) . I am thinking to show 5 more programs (with a little desc) on program details page . Will this work ? Thanks .
Finding duplicate content is an automated process. BUT penalizing or banning is not an automated process. Someone (PERSON) in Google should take that decision. Doing this will not penalize your site for 3 reasons. 01 Coz the description will be maximum about 400 words. 02 You are linking to the site with original content. This will be considered as giving proper credit. 03 Googlebot is intelligent enough to distinguish such things.
Duplicate content is duplicate content whether you link to the original or not IMO. You can try to avoid any duplicate penalties by surrounding text and additional (ideally original) information.
I disagree. There is a dup content penalty. The penalty is that G will ignore your duplicate content - whether you link to the original source or not. You should make every effort to make you content as original as possible.
This project is dead I think as product descriptions (LOTS) are only one sentence long . But I will run it to see which pages Google will index which not , hope I will get 1000 pages indexed out of 12.000 . Will keep you posted .