Review excerpts, bad for SEO? Help please :(

caskofdregs · 08-09-2011, 02:05 PM

Hi everyone!

I have a few product reviews for Amazon products - about 1000 words written by me. At the end of the review I usually add a short copy-pasted review from Amazon with a link to see the full review on Amazon.

My question is, is this bad for SEO? Will Google see this as duplicate content and penalize me? Should I spin these reviews or remove them entirely?

Thank you everybody

Love this forum, btw!

DebbieD · 08-09-2011, 02:19 PM

It's definitely better if you change the words around a bit.

caskofdregs · 08-09-2011, 02:22 PM

thank you! it's gonna take a bit of work since i have quite a lot of reviews, but i'll work on that.

Lares · 08-10-2011, 06:13 AM

It shouldnt matter if you use all in one seo plugin or similar one that creates canonical tag.

julien731 · 08-10-2011, 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lares

It shouldnt matter if you use all in one seo plugin or similar one that creates canonical tag.

I don't see your point. If she includes a short copy of an Amazon review in her page, it's not gonna change something in the canonical.

If it's a short extract of the review, maybe you could use the <blockquote cite="http://amazon.com/the-review-page.html"> tag and link it to the original source.

faysal969 · 08-10-2011, 09:45 AM

It may affect your position in search result. You should rewrite the reviews by your own words.

08-09-2011, 02:05 PM	#1
caskofdregs Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 89 Thanks: 24 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts	Review excerpts, bad for SEO? Help please :( Hi everyone! I have a few product reviews for Amazon products - about 1000 words written by me. At the end of the review I usually add a short copy-pasted review from Amazon with a link to see the full review on Amazon. My question is, is this bad for SEO? Will Google see this as duplicate content and penalize me? Should I spin these reviews or remove them entirely? Thank you everybody Love this forum, btw!

08-09-2011, 02:19 PM	#2
DebbieD HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Big Apple Posts: 309 Thanks: 21 Thanked 60 Times in 53 Posts	Re: Review excerpts, bad for SEO? Help please :( It's definitely better if you change the words around a bit.
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08-09-2011, 02:22 PM	#3
caskofdregs Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 89 Thanks: 24 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts	Re: Review excerpts, bad for SEO? Help please :( thank you! it's gonna take a bit of work since i have quite a lot of reviews, but i'll work on that.

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Lares HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 100 Thanks: 18 Thanked 15 Times in 8 Posts	Re: Review excerpts, bad for SEO? Help please :( It shouldnt matter if you use all in one seo plugin or similar one that creates canonical tag.

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