Duplicate content with Froogle or others?

[Tonearm]

Could Froogle (Google Base) or similar sites create duplicate content issues?

[Tonearm]

No one is concerned about this? I would think that shopping comparison sites that use your product descriptions could cause problems. No?

[tedster]

Are you seeing this kind of filtering hurting you? I'm not aware of it as a problem.

[Tonearm]

I'm just trying to root out all possible duplicate contents issues. It sounds like it would cause a problem to me, or does Google take shopping comparisons into account?

[tedster]

If you see a problem, then do what you can to address it - in this case, maybe block the bots from the comparison sites if they aren't sending you converting traffic anyway? But I would caution against getting too theoretical.

[Tonearm]

Theoretical? I thought duplicate content was as simple as having the same paragraph on two different pages.

[tedster]

I'd say duplicate content is having a ranking problem because the same paragraph is on two different pages. If you rank well, then where's the problem?

[Tonearm]

So duplicate content checking shouldn't be based on finding paragraphs of mine that are duplicated, but penalties I've been hit with?

[tedster]

When you can see a real penalty *you [probably have other problems too, in that case), or you're filtered out, or just ranking lower than a copycat - that's what I'd worry about. Trying to fight all the duplicates could take all your time, but with no real benefit to your business.