Stealing Description

Hi,

I'm not seller here, but I don't understand what you guys talk about, for example a same MRR product can appears here 100 times with different prices from $0.50 to $9.99 (same product and upload from different sellers, but the description are copy from the original sales page of the products, so they all the same, so is that a problem?

How can you call this as "STEAL my Description" , you only can say that if the full description is written by you originally right?

johnny, i dont think it is a copyright problem for the text itself, but what these copycats do not understand:

the same text on the page will google make it summarize the search result for duplication and none of the sellers will sell anything, because they never get traffic...

ralf

holy crap.

user itemsquest products are all copy and paste of others descriptions.

nice.

hows this...... he even copied and pasted my user name when he inadvertantly copied the entire tradebit listing page and not just the listing.........
8997675
[www.tradebit.com]

what the f$#@%?!?!?

you can see right in his listing where he copied "contact seller: dealershoppe etc........"

my listing.....
[www.tradebit.com]
4601673
i sat here for over an hour to find ALL his listings are copied from mine and others.
WTF?
i put tons of work into doing the research to build an accurate listings.

What I do not understand: "stealing" the description leads to a "duplicate content penalty" with google and people will rank much lower with their articles than the original source and will not sell a dime on tradebit... this is just wasting a lot of time for copy+paste that has no real outcome!

ralf

ralf...
this user "itemsquest" so blatantly steals my descriptions you can even see my seller name "dealershoppe" in his listing descriptions on this one.........
[www.tradebit.com]
hilarious!!

ralf..
would i get higher google rankings and avoid "duplicate content penalty" if i started redescribing my items?

hi... first: I have deleted the user, who copied your description 1 to 1... that is not tolerated at all around here!

second: yes, if your descriptions are unique for google, the chances of ranking increase. Also the careful usage of keywords (phrases, which users type into google to search for) that are describing the product help a lot....

ralf

I agree,

Most of the products on Tradebit are PLR products with the same sales page discriptions.
I dont see where this is a issue unless people are copying someones personal information from a page and relisting it as there own.

People, there are millions of products on Tradebit and not everyone has time to make up there own descriptions for the same products.

Its just my oppinion, but i think this is nonsense !

dave, as I mailed you before: doing a copy+paste is a very bad idea for your sales because we live in big parts from the search engines. neither google nor bing like duplicate texts:

[googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com]

specifically

Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

so, google avoids the phrase penalty, but they also make clear that ranking will not happen with the identical text on various pages... so a copy+paste approach on tradebit is not wanted by myself, the merchant who provided the original copy in the beginning and not from google, who will just not list it good and noone will find or buy it.

Iam not arguing anything, its just that the sale pages for many products already have a discription of the product and i see that about 90% of the people selling the same item are using these sale page descriptions with there products. Myself id prefer to just place a few lines of text and let it be. I wasnt really aware of the fact about the description problem in the first place but, i now see what you mean by it Puzzler.