Creating multiple gigs with Identical or similar content

[majidshowghi]

As far as I can remember, according to Fiverr's Terms of Service, creating multiple gigs with identical or highly similar content, including the same video and concept, is considered "gig duplication" and is generally against the rules. Fiverr emphasizes that each gig should offer unique value or provide a distinct audience or service. Duplicating gigs can lead to warnings, suspension, or even removal of the gigs or account, as it is seen as a way to manipulate search results and potentially mislead buyers.

Now, If you look up a service, such as 2D animation for example; You will easily find a lot of duplicated gigs. 
I mean, If it is not against the terms of service, please let me know. So I would do that as well. I am level 2 and I am allowed to create up to 10 gigs. 

If it Is against the rules, why do we see hundreds of them from the first results pages? 

I can literally find hundreds if I spend enough time on it. 
 

[katakatica]

1 hour ago, majidshowghi said:

As far as I can remember, according to Fiverr's Terms of Service, creating multiple gigs with identical or highly similar content, including the same video and concept, is considered "gig duplication" and is generally against the rules. Fiverr emphasizes that each gig should offer unique value or provide a distinct audience or service. Duplicating gigs can lead to warnings, suspension, or even removal of the gigs or account, as it is seen as a way to manipulate search results and potentially mislead buyers.

Now, If you look up a service, such as 2D animation for example; You will easily find a lot of duplicated gigs. 
I mean, If it is not against the terms of service, please let me know. So I would do that as well. I am level 2 and I am allowed to create up to 10 gigs. 

If it Is against the rules, why do we see hundreds of them from the first results pages? 

I can literally find hundreds if I spend enough time on it. 
 

If you look, some of these are the same gig, just ad and non-ad versions of them (e.g., some are basically for promoted gigs). If you look at the gigs' stats, (rating, number of reviews, etc.) they are the same. I think Fiverr just tends to show ads and non-ads sort of separated.

People still make duplicates though (and as far as I know it, it's not allowed) but this seems to me to be more a case of just promoted gigs showing up a bit oddly (I personally think the 'ad by' bit is way too small and should show up much bigger (and the two sections should be separated very clearly.)

[majidshowghi]

2 hours ago, katakatica said:

If you look, some of these are the same gig, just ad and non-ad versions of them (e.g., some are basically for promoted gigs). If you look at the gigs' stats, (rating, number of reviews, etc.) they are the same. I think Fiverr just tends to show ads and non-ads sort of separated.

People still make duplicates though (and as far as I know it, it's not allowed) but this seems to me to be more a case of just promoted gigs showing up a bit oddly (I personally think the 'ad by' bit is way too small and should show up much bigger (and the two sections should be separated very clearly.)

My bad, I picked the wrong screenshots. 
But still, those that can count as "duplicated" are outnumbered.

[priyank_mod]

3 minutes ago, majidshowghi said:

But still, those that can count as "duplicated" are outnumbered.

Yes, they pretty much outnumber everything!!

I have seen PRO sellers having multiple xerox gigs where just their gig titles vary by a word or two. 

[uk1000]

I agree the ones shown in the link might be mostly the same gigs (eg. 1 promoted and one not). You could check the URL to see if it's the same.

According to the TOS:

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Users may report Gigs, that may be in violation of Fiverr’s Terms based on the reported Gig’s replicated similarity to pre-existing services (copycat Gigs) through our reporting system or to Customer Support.

It also says in the TOS (though the formatting is bad I think):

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* Gigs and/or users may be removed by Fiverr from the Site for violations of the Terms, which may include (but are not limited to) the following violations and/or materials:

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* Intentional copies of Gigs

The first "copycat gigs" might be talking really about seller's copying other sellers' gigs.

The "intentional copies of gigs" might be talking about either the seller copying someone else's gig or their own or both, but that one line isn't that clear what they mean. They should really clarify if they mean having a gig that's too close to another one of your own is against that rule (or whether they just mean copying other people's gigs isn't allowed).

Edited November 4 by uk1000

[mandyzines]

Apparently, detection for it hasn't been AI-d, or maybe it has and (whadaya know) isn't working properly. One of my target key word search results has a seller with four of the exact same gig; the image, title, and descriptions are identical. I've never seen her promote them.

One thing about "similar" gigs is that the differences can be enough of a shift, in theory, to attract clients who look for things differently via search. Gigs can only have so many key words associated with them.

Another thing is sometimes something mysterious happens, beyond ratings, to make gigs drop off the face of the site and no amount of fiddling with it brings back impressions. Maybe they were ill and offline for an extended amount of time. Maybe the algorithm failed to index a revamped gig properly after editing. So, sellers create another gig in effort to get general exposure (and income) back, and will sometimes use it to create custom offers that juice the activity up on the older one.

In my case, I created a "similar" gig targeting different keywords after it seemed like the heavy editing I did to one last November resulted in it not getting indexed properly. 

Edited November 4 by mandyzines