What do Google think about sites built with datafeeds? - GoFuckYourself.com

Emil · 09-30-2007, 02:41 PM

Some sponsors give out datafeeds with thousands of products.
The feeds contain: Product Name, Description, Price, Image and link-code.

Lets say I built a site with ~5000 pages, 1 product on each page with the info from the datafeed.

What do Google think about these sites? Do they ban them or do they just penalize them for duplicate content?

Would it be stupid to have adsens on them? (this is not adult sites)

Argoz · 09-30-2007, 04:09 PM

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StarkReality · 09-30-2007, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emil

Some sponsors give out datafeeds with thousands of products.
The feeds contain: Product Name, Description, Price, Image and link-code.

Lets say I built a site with ~5000 pages, 1 product on each page with the info from the datafeed.

What do Google think about these sites? Do they ban them or do they just penalize them for duplicate content?

Would it be stupid to have adsens on them? (this is not adult sites)

I'm running loads of mainstream sites built this way. One problem is duplicate content, you won't be banned, but it's very likely that you'll end up with 5000 pages indexed and 5 left a month later and no traffic.

Putting adsense on them is not a problem, as long as the products are compilant to google's guidelines.

2 things that would help alot: Make those descriptions unique, make sure to avoid any footprints that hint to the sponsor. Many people spend alot of time on making the content look unique and forget about the footprints that make it VERY easy to identify a "thin afiiliate" site.

_mC_ · 09-30-2007, 04:32 PM

Good info, thanks.

BSleazy · 09-30-2007, 04:42 PM

I've had successful sites dumped from yahoo because of affiliate links. They actually responded to an email with this info. Google doesn't really seem to do that as much though. You can find high ranked sites with nothing but affiliate links and shit that are getting major traffic.

kektex · 09-30-2007, 06:17 PM

Yep from my experience you'll end up with a bunch of deindexed pages due to dup content.
Remember you are not going to be the only one using those datafeeds...

Diligent · 09-30-2007, 09:16 PM

.. and rewriting that much content must be tricky, even with the fastest rewrite script and a resource rich server, right?

Nah, don't think i would wanna mess about in that scale, too risky longterm..

2012 · 09-30-2007, 09:53 PM

interesting stuff ...

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Are you using an affiliate datafeed? To Google, that's another warning sign.

However, if you offer a comparison of prices between different online merchants, you're OK, you're not a thin affiliate.

Google provides an incredibly tough guideline, which hundreds of thousands of affiliate sites fail to meet.

Google says:

"Do not call a page affiliate spam when an affiliation is only incidental to the message and purpose of a website. To determine whether participation in affiliate programs is central or incidental to the site's existence, ask yourself this question: Would this site remain a coherent whole if the pages leading to the affiliate (merchant) were taken away?"

That probably counts out most affiliate sites.

In summary, if you want to be friends with Google, make sure you provide extra value or content.

I've quoted only parts of the report. Any serious affiliate will want to study the whole thing carefully.

http://www.associateprograms.com/art...hin-affiliates

Emil · 10-01-2007, 04:06 AM

Thanks for your replies.

I'm going to replace synonyms that pretty much fits in any sentence. Like Big/Large/Huge and so on. But maybe that won't help much...

I'm also going to make the site grow over time so it won't look like some crappy blackhat-site. I was thinking of converting the datafeed to RSS and have posts with future dates and just import it to WP. Maybe that will help the site because it'll look like a more natural growth.

I think it's a advantage to use Wordpress since I can easily use themes and plugins to make the site more content-rich.

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Emil Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Sweden Posts: 5,650	Thanks for your replies. I'm going to replace synonyms that pretty much fits in any sentence. Like Big/Large/Huge and so on. But maybe that won't help much... I'm also going to make the site grow over time so it won't look like some crappy blackhat-site. I was thinking of converting the datafeed to RSS and have posts with future dates and just import it to WP. Maybe that will help the site because it'll look like a more natural growth. I think it's a advantage to use Wordpress since I can easily use themes and plugins to make the site more content-rich. __________________ Free 🅑🅘🅣🅒🅞🅘🅝🅢 Every Hour (Yes, really. Free ₿itCoins.) (Signup with ONLY your Email and Password. You can also refer people and get even more.)