Hi,if you were promoting certain books with amazon associates would google penalize your site if you used famous quotes in your written content,that are almost certainly listed 100 of times elsewhere?Or does the duplicate content have to run to pages for there to be a problem? Basically would you be punished for duplicate content (if indeed duplicate content is still a problem with google) ,& is this something to avoid? Thanks for any help.
Duplicate content is definately something to consider, although you will only get problems if you use only duplicate content. e.g. if you have a book page that has your own unique description and also has a quote or review that is on Amazon and 10000000 other sites, then you won't be penalised. It is about adding value - the duplicate content filter on google is about removing these millions of pages that simply spit out affililate feed data. They key is to add something of value - can you add your own description? Add a review? Tidy up the information to remove spelling mistakes etc.? Be creative, but add something of use to the potential visitor of your site and google will be happy.