wordpress with ecommerce site seo question

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  wickerparadise123 · Member · Nov 13, 2014 at 6:04 pm

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  I wanted to setup a wordpress blog with widgets that embeds various products from my ecommerce store: Wicker Paradise.

  My question is if I create blog posts that have the product embeds and text from my store, will this have a negative impact on my seo for duplicate content?

  Also, will be using ifttt to have the posts automatically submitted to facebook, twitter, tumblr, and other social media profiles.

  Anyone else with experience on this?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 13, 2014 at 6:08 pm

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  WordPress.com provides free blogs and hosts them free of charge. There are no bandwidth charges. All WordPress.com blogs come with 3000 megabytes (~3 GBs) of space for storing uploaded files and images. Free features are listed here https://en.wordpress.com/features/

  See here for details of all 3 plans http://store.wordpress.com/bundles/ offered by WordPress.com.

  Premium bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/premium/
  Business bundle details http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/

  You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and purchase upgrades at > Store > My Upgrades
  Your billing history will be at Dashboard > Store > Billing History
  Your options for payment are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/payment/

  Note that the free plan and the Premium plan do not allow you to upload your own themes or plugins. WordPress.com blogs cannot be equipped for eCommerce transactions unless they have the $299. per year annually renewable Business upgrade. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/ecommerce-is-now-available-on-wordpresscom?replies=1
  See here for ecommerce details http://en.support.wordpress.com/ecommerce/

  A self-hosted WordPress site might be right for you. WordPress.org offers free software that you can install on a web server. You can upload and install themes and plugins, run ads, conduct ecommerce and edit the database. Learn about the differences here. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 13, 2014 at 6:11 pm

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  There is no blogger initiated advertising allowed on WordPress.com blogs, and no upgrade you can purchase to change that reality. We do have an advertising program called WordAds, which you can read more about here:
  http://wordads.co/

  Advertising outside of WordAds at WordPress.com is not allowed and will get your blog suspended. For full details, please see:
  http://support.wordpress.com/advertising/
  http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/

  If you do not have the Business upgrade you can post a PayPal button http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

  If you have a shopping cart set up for your own products or services elsewhere online you can create a custom menu and include a custom link to it in the menu.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

  WordPress.com allows bloggers to insert text affiliate links within post and page content to most third-party affiliate programs, provided they are not the primary content of the site in question.

  Image affiliate links in posts and pages and any banners, affiliate links in sidebar or footer widget areas, are still considered to be advertising and are not allowed on WordPress.com blogs. http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/ closely.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 13, 2014 at 6:30 pm

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  The short form: no image affiliate links are allowed. Text affiliate links are allowed. Nothing that looks like advertising is allowed, but if it is for YOUR own products, then that’s okay.

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  wickerparadise123 · Member · Nov 13, 2014 at 6:57 pm

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  Thanks for clarifying.

  Yeah, it’s all my products so I am good there.

  What about using the same content from my website to the wordpress posts and sending them to various social media profiles…

  Should I be worried that this will create duplicate content penalties on my main domain?

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 13, 2014 at 7:22 pm

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  Should I be worried that this will create duplicate content penalties on my main domain?

  Yes

  Note also that if your site is just a clone of another site – or is a link farm with no or not much original content and exists to send folks to other sites – both are against the terms of service and will get your site suspended

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  timethief · Member · Nov 13, 2014 at 7:35 pm

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  NOTE: Google’s stand on creating duplicate content across domains for SEO gaming purposes is found here. Google and Bing’s algorithms can detect those who are into SEO gaming so they can make income from republishing the same content across multiple domains work like a hot damn. And, as auxclass has mentioned we report duplicate content blogs here to Staff for suspension.

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 13, 2014 at 8:34 pm

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  Much better to just make your existing site larger – add a WordPress.ORG install blog if you want and talk about what ever it is you are selling – THAT will make your site search better and you avoid the TOS issues that you will probably run into here

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Nov 14, 2014 at 12:50 am

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  If you’re just looking to share a link to your WordPress.com site to your social media sites, then you’re okay. It will only negatively affect you if you post the same exact content in multiple places.

  Using IFTTT, or our own Publicize features, to share links to your content is fine.