XML feeds in regards to Duplicate Content

[buysellrentspain]

Hi everyone

I hope you can help. I run a property portal in Spain and am looking for an answer to an issue we are having.

We are in the process of uploading an XML feed to our site which contains 10,000+ properties relating to our niche.

Although this is great for our customers I am aware this content is going to be duplicated from other sites as our clients advertise over a range of portals.

My question is, are there any measures I can take to safeguard our site from penalisation from Google?

Manually writing up 10,000 + descriptions for properties is out of the question sadly.

I really hope somebody can help

Thanks

Steve

[MashBonigala]

Hi Steve,

There is no easy way to prevent duplicate penalty with such a large number of pages being pushed into the site, short of no-indexing those pages.

Perhaps a noindex, follow placed into the head of all these pages would help. I assume you would not want these indexed anyway because that is where the problem will raise it's ugly head!

[buysellrentspain]

Hi Mash,

Thanks for your reply. Its such a difficult issue because those pages create deep content which allows us to rank for long tail phrases.

For example, 3 bedroom apartment for sale in Barcelona. So yeah its a tough one, and most of the content on our website would be those property pages. So no indexing them would reduce the amount of content we offer.

What a pickle. Any more help you can provide is appreciated

Thanks

[MashBonigala]

I undertand exactly what you are saying but from experience I can tell you that trying to get them indexed would lead a lot of grief. If those listings are all over the net then your website ceases to offer any value to Google and hence it will simply demote you.

I understand it is a tricky situation and it is hard to let go of the idea that these pages should be indexed so you would get rankings for long tail keywords. I guess it is really a question of how much you want to gamble.

[buysellrentspain]

Yeah I understand. I think I will take your advice and no follow the pages. It is not worth the risk really.

Thanks for your help