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[talkingbear]

Hi Everyone,

I have a concern regarding duplicate copy. We currently offer a three different affiliate programs consisting of out right product purchases at a 50 percent discount, 30 percent discount for our drop ship program and lastly a 15 percent discount for banner referral.

My question is I want to develop an additional affiliate program where we provide the content to the new affiliate to minimize there setup effort. The new affiliate would be responsible for acquiring or using an existing domain and we intern would provide pre-built web pages that link back to our shopping cart.

Since this is pre-built content (duplicate) would this approach violate any duplicate content issues which inturn would penalized both our affiliates site as well as ours?

Thanks

[Jill]

Welcome talkingbear!

Duplicate content isn't actually "penalized" but it is ignored (so it essentially feels like a penalty).

The types of pages you're talking about would most likely never get indexed by any reputable search engine, but it makes good sense. Why would any search engine want to show multiple copies of the same information?

Your affiliates would be smart to create their own unique content to sell your products, or to forget about the search engines and use other forms of marketing.

Jill