Hi, I have a question about duplicate content that I cant seem to find answers for. I am building an e-commerce website that covers 4 main (but connected) areas, using a single database. We thought about putting up 4 websites, in order to utilize the domain for each of the 4 main department catagories. The sites will all have the same products, using the same titles and descriptions of each product - we cant change them site to site. (We have been considering just using 2 sites, each targeting 2 related catagories). These will all connect to the same database and shopping cart. We will be able to change everything except the product names and descriptions. We can add unique text to the home page, all the department/catagory pages can be unique and have their own versions of text, and we plan on adding many additional pages of information, videos and links in order to supply a lot of information about the products. These will also all be unique to each site. We need to know the rammifications of doing this. If the only duplicate content are all the products titles and descriptions, will google drop one of the sites and just use the other? I dont know what percentage the duplicated content (all the products) are in comparison to the unique content, maybe 50%. What else might we have to deal with? Thank you.
Just keep the unique content above 50% and small amounts of duplication will not be an issue - my personal rule is 80% unique content. For a food site (example) you could lean one site towards reviews and another towards recipes with user feedback that will give you an ever growing unique content on both sites.
I have an problem in my site. please give me suggestions that my site categories keywords not mention about head
i don't think that google would consider data of an ecommerce site as duplicate content. if i have a book and i m selling it at various e-commerce stores, title would be same and so is other data.
i don't think that google would consider data of an ecommerce site as duplicate content. if i have a book and i m selling it at various e-commerce stores, title would be same and so is other data.
Google definitely sees products as duplicate content across ecomm sites. Honestly...I would create a few variations of product descriptions in your database and make each site pull a different Title and slightly different product description. Also remember that Google doesn't want you ranking multiple sites for the same keyword...hence the duplicate content...keep an eye on your GA codes
Could you use something like copyscape and see if it thinks that the sites are duplicate. There are probably a whole bunch of similar sites out there that will give you a test similar to what Google uses.
I know this original post is a little old, but I am also using one database between 4 websites. I am unable to edit any of the product information without it changing on all 4 sites. Since the latest Google algorithm update, how important is this altogether? I don't want to delete 3 of my websites just because of Google.
There is no other way TLFord you have to delete the other three websites otherwise you also have to face the duplicacy issue.