Back in the day you could just slap up a datafeed site & do well. Not any more! This post from Scott Jangro and a video from Matt Cutts of Google explains?
<center><strong>VIDEO - Matt Cutts of Google on Datafeeds</strong>
Here is a very short video about product descriptions and duplicate content.
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Thanks to Minstrel (David) for the heads up on this video!
<strong><a href="http://feedfront.com/archives/article001879">Datafeed Do?s and Don?ts By Scott Jangro</a></strong>
Back in the ?good old days?, it was easy to build a gigantic website based on the products provided by one or more merchants? (then) Literally overnight, high-traffic, high-earning datafeed-based affiliate websites fell off the map, closing another chapter in the long, twisted relationship between affiliate marketers and search engines.
Over the years, we?ve had a lot of successes and failures using product datafeeds. As such, we learned a lot about what works and doesn?t work with using retail product data, and being successful comes down to a few simple rules.
<center><strong>VIDEO - Matt Cutts of Google on Datafeeds</strong>
Here is a very short video about product descriptions and duplicate content.
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Thanks to Minstrel (David) for the heads up on this video!