Affiliate Content, Duplicate Content And The Crucial Differences Between Them; Er, There Are None…
Going by word on the Search Engine news group, alt.internet.search-engines, it’s looking like Google is getting better at spotting and demoting affiliate content. It could well be that because the same text content is repeated over and over on every affiliate site that carries it it gets demoted by Google purely for being duplicate content. I see this as being a problem, a growing problem, for every affiliate merchant and client using a data feed to power the pages. While the templates folk use may well vary in detail due to individuals customising them to their taste, essentially they’re all variants on the same theme and of course they all contain the same few lines of text content in the same order.
Repetition of this kind shouldn’t be too hard to identify and either ignore or remove from the listings or do whatever with which may well mean in the future that the idea of affiliate sites as we now have them is simply no longer practical.
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