Ecommerce Descriptions the Same as Amazon

[ryandiscord]

I work on an ecommerce site that also sells on Amazon. Many of the product descriptions are duplicated from the website to Amazon. Could this impact my site? Would Google see my site as duplicating Amazon, even though my site is the originator of the content?

Does anyone have any experience with this?

 

[Ryuzaki]

I don't think you'll have any issues in terms of a penalty or anything. Tons of sites do syndication without issues.

If you wanted to make it unique without having to add too much, I'd add a sentence or two at the start and a sentence or two at the bottom. Matt Cutts said it doesn't take much at all to dodge any of those potential blockages to ranking highly... just a bit of added value is enough to become unique enough.

 

[ryandiscord]

Cool, thank you!