Do Product Feeds Hurt SEO by Duplicating Content

[Planet13]

Hi there, Everyone:

Will supplying product descriptions and photos to affiliates / google products / shopping comparison engines / amazon stores cause duplicate content issues, thus hurting your ranking ability?

do you provide an alternate description for your product feeds?

Thanks in advance.

[netmeg]

I don't think so and no. We only offer feeds up to Google and Bing though.

[Planet13]

Thank you, netmeg.

We only offer feeds up to Google and Bing though.

I know this is slightly off the original topic I started, but is there a reason that you DON'T provide product feeds to either independent affiliates of affiliate networks? (Assuming that you use affiliates or affiliate networks.)

Thanks in advance.

[netmeg]

Didn't seem worth the effort to my B2B clients.