I know it states that I shouldn’t copy and paste from other sites but can I do this from a google doc that has my product descriptions or will that also limit my visabilty? Thanks in advance.
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Google Docs is a web based word processor so you should be fine.
Things to remember if copy/ pasting from a word processing program:
- the description has a max character count
- the description has a bunch of characters that aren’t allowed and this includes the formatting associated with extra paragraph breaks but only for some programs
If you can’t preview your listing it’s possibly due to one of those things.
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This is really helpful thanks so much.
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I was wondering also about copy/pasting from your other listings. When you have multiple listings that are very similar, is it ok to copy & paste and just change the small details that are different? There’s really only so many ways to say exactly the same thing!
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I do this all the time as it saves a considerable amount of time. I know other members do the same as the new listing will have it’s own Folksy listing number against it.
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I have actually set up draft listings - colour prints - panorama or standard, ditto with black and white, willow work and rush work. So 6 drafts in total which contain essential information and basic tags etc relevant to the listing. Each draft has essential basic information that is repetitive - so a panoramic colour print has details about size and how it will be posted and relevant tags to a panoramic print whilst an A2/A3 colour print will have slightly different basic information and tags - and B&W in both cases slightly different again. Alan can copy the draft and then go in and add information about the particular photo - and still change things if he wants but doesn’t have to keep repeating same information - but also basic things are correct - such as a colour print in the colour print collection and not the B&W because he had copied from a B&W print. I hope that makes sense. 
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Within a site,I e. Here on Folksy there is not a duplication problem in fact I have only ever written one new listing and have sold thousands. I use the Duplicate button then edit to suit.
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There’s a duplicate button??
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@ccbandatp draft listings sound like a great idea!
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Yes of course. Well Copy but same difference.
It creates a duplicated listing. You edit it, change the title, words in the description to suit, tags and obviously the photos. It goes into your Draft section until you complete it / publish.
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Had no idea, thank you!
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I never knew we could do it from there, I use the app and was adding a new listing as a copy from another in the same way but recently after changing a couple of photos and going to preview then save as draft it’s just saved (not a new draft) then I’ve had to mess around getting the original listing back to how it was. I decided it was easier to write a whole new listing but doing it as you have will save a lot of time again.
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