Affiliate Site Duplicate Content Question

[SamBuck]

Hi Guys

I have been un-able to find a definite answer to this on various forums, your views on this will be very valuable.

I am doing a few Amazon affiliate sites and will be pulling in product data from Amazon via a Wordpress plugin. The plugin pulls in titles, descriptions, images, prices etc, however this presents a duplicate content issue and hence I can not publish the product pages with amazon descriptions.

Due to the large number of products, it is not feasible to re-write all descriptions, but I plan re-write descriptions and titles for 50% of the products and publish then with “index, follow” attribute.

However, for the other 50%, what would be the best way to handle them?

• Should I publish them as “noindex,follow”?

**- Or is there another solution?

Many thanks for your time.**

[Sebes]

Hey Sam,

by using noindex you wont show up in the serps at all, so this might not be the best idea. Assuming that there aren't any duplicate pages on your domain I'd say try it with a few pages and see if they rank. Worst thing happening is that google attributes the text to amazon and thus not rank you very high.
What you could do is wirte a small unique text (300 words) for each page and use the amazon product data. use a SEO plugin and set archives / categories / tags pages to noindex though..