Content spamming risk
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If some websites, which provide information about apps in a particular niche, are publishing the same content which we have given in our app's description when they refer our app for that particular niche then would it lead to spamming? Our website is getting a backlink from one such website so are we at any sort of risk? What should we do about it without having to lose that backlink?
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Thank you!
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If it's a small snippet of text (like you get for boilerplate product descriptions on eCommerce sites), then the risk isn't very high. In fact Google know that often, many sites will end up with the same product descriptions which they take directly from the manufacturer(s), e.g: hardware stores selling parts
If it's a significant piece of content like an article or custom designed content piece, then there could be some risk involved. In that case you might tell the person who is using your content, to add a canonical tag to their page pointing to yours
Unless it's a study, article or something pretty large, I wouldn't be overly worried. That doesn't mean that what you are all doing together is optimum, it would be better to have unique descriptive snippets (so that each page has a different value-add). That being said, sometimes budget constraints don't allow for that
Of course one thing you could do, is wait until everyone has copied your snippet of text, and then change your own snippet to be different and better than everyone else's
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