What do Google think about sites built with datafeeds?
 

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)

good question. BUMP for you.

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.

Good info, thanks.

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.

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...

.. 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..

thin affiliates
 

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

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.