original content and google

[daya20]

I am starting a website soon, where I'll be listing approximately 7,000 different products for sale. Many of them are very similar, and thus could easily use the exact same description as another. However, since google groups identical content on multiple pages into one page, it doesn't seem wise to have a general description for multiple products. My questions: what does google consider original? What if I created 7,000 different descriptions, all with the same sentence structure, but just pluging in synonyms for key words? Should I write an original piece of text for each product? Is there a program that might generate this type of text that google wouldn't penalize?

Ink Seller

[minnapple]

Google is including less pages into it's search index these days.

Note: Google will capture data, but not release all of it into its search data.

Even having unique content is no guarantee that google will include pages in to the search data.

The depth of inculsion is somewhat based upon the weight and placement of inbound links.

You are going to need to do a fair amount of testing to find out what works for the particular sector you are in.

[Quadrille]

If you have multiple similar products, you will gain most (and risk least) by grouping similar items together on one page.

eg Green widgets sizes 1 through 25 on one page

Red widgets sizes 3 through 64 on the next and so on.

The duplicate content issue is a biggie these days, and is made MUCH worse by having little on a page (eg 420 lines of code for shared stuff - eg marketing blurb, links, etc., and ten lines of code for the product - to Google, such pages blur into a bunch of clones.

"Combine and Prosper" (Quadrille's 15th Law!)