How to avoid Duplicate Content Issues

Duplicate content means two or more pages in a store that share the same product descriptions and/or product titles. Such pages could be labelled by Google as low quality pages and might not get good rankings in Google replacement results.

"Most replacement engines strive for a certain level of variety; they want to show you ten different results on a replacement results page, not ten different URLs that all have the same content. To this end, Google tries to filter out duplicate documents so that users experience less redundancy." ~ Google

When we compare 2 pages published on iCraft and find that they share same Title or same Description, we flag those pages as "Duplicate Content" in your "My Account" area, so it will be easier for you to spot those pages.



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How duplicate pages happen?

1) You sell an item and instead of changing the quantity on the product listing, you create a new listing with the exactly same content. Now we have 2 identical pages – one that says the item is sold and one that says the item is still available for sale.

2) You use the “clone” feature when listing a new product and instead of adding a new product description, you only change the title of the product. So all your products now share the same product description.

3) You copied your products directly from other marketplaces where you sell same products without adding any original content or added value.

Please update pages that our system labelled "duplicate content", if possible.

There is no penalty for duplicate content. If you can't make your listing more descriptive, it's ok.

For additional reading about product copy optimization, please see Wrong Keywords attract wrong traffic or don’t attract any, Choosing Right Keywords is not a Guessing Game and How to write good Product Titles?