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Anyone Using DataFeeds?

by Marketing Fool
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Is anyone using datafeeds for content to make adsense sites?

If so, how's it going? And where are you getting your feeds? Free feeds are preferable...

I'm tinkering with slapping a feed into a Mysql database and pulling out the content with a little PHP.
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  • Profile picture of the author sarged2
    slapping a feed into a Mysql database
    What the feck for using Mysql?
    I would just use file caches for the feeds - isn't it better...
    Well unless you really want to rearrange the flow in which they are being served.

    The idea sounds like an alchemy for making free money, I haven't tried it, but it doesn't good for me, for two reasons:
    - If they publish this content first, and it gets indexed ahead of yours, and you will be replicating dupes, thus having hard time at being indexed and driving the traffic to the site.
    - If you are getting indexed first and ranking for their articles they will at 99% probability file a DCMA complaint against you and say bye bye to your domain...

    If there is a solution to the above dilemma, then there wouldn't be much to prevent us from doing so.
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    • Profile picture of the author Marketing Fool
      Originally Posted by sarged2 View Post

      What the feck for using Mysql?
      I would just use file caches for the feeds - isn't it better...
      Well unless you really want to rearrange the flow in which they are being served.

      The idea sounds like an alchemy for making free money, I haven't tried it, but it doesn't good for me, for two reasons:
      - If they publish this content first, and it gets indexed ahead of yours, and you will be replicating dupes, thus having hard time at being indexed and driving the traffic to the site.
      - If you are getting indexed first and ranking for their articles they will at 99% probability file a DCMA complaint against you and say bye bye to your domain...

      If there is a solution to the above dilemma, then there wouldn't be much to prevent us from doing so.
      The reason I slap the feeds into a database is so I can rearrange things to avoid duplicate content. And also, if the company supplying the feed goes under or stops allowing the use of its feed....well you've got a complete copy in your database already...

      The companies that send out datafeeds WANT you to use them, that's why they make them available. They aren't going to file a DCMA complaint against you, you have an agreement with them.
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    The reason I slap the feeds into a database is so I can rearrange things to avoid duplicate content. And also, if the company supplying the feed goes under or stops allowing the use of its feed....well you've got a complete copy in your database already...
    Got it. I do imagine quite well how to rearrange the excerpts on a single page, but I don't think you are talking about excerpts but the full articles, right? Ranking the dupes has been always a mystery to me... Though actually yeah, there many wiki sites that do it quite well.

    The companies that send out datafeeds WANT you to use them, that's why they make them available. They aren't going to file a DCMA complaint against you, you have an agreement with them.
    I don't quite understand who would want to do that.
    I could offer an excerpt from my blog, so that you could click through and read the complete article on my blog. But why would I give out all my content?
    Then again, if all we can offer is an excerpt and an outbound link, wouldn't it be counted as a bridge site and a violation of policies?

    Sorry if I don't get it. :rolleyes:
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    • Profile picture of the author Marketing Fool
      Originally Posted by sarged2 View Post

      Got it. I do imagine quite well how to rearrange the excerpts on a single page, but I don't think you are talking about excerpts but the full articles, right? Ranking the dupes has been always a mystery to me... Though actually yeah, there many wiki sites that do it quite well.


      I don't quite understand who would want to do that.
      I could offer an excerpt from my blog, so that you could click through and read the complete article on my blog. But why would I give out all my content?
      Then again, if all we can offer is an excerpt and an outbound link, wouldn't it be counted as a bridge site and a violation of policies?

      Sorry if I don't get it. :rolleyes:

      Nah we aren't on the same page...you're thinking rss feeds for blog/article posts. Data feeds are usually lists of products for sale with descriptions of them, prices, etc. A baby stroller company might make a data feed of the 500 strollers they sell available to affiliates.

      Someone like me, as an affiliate, uses the info in the data feed to build my own site. When someone clicks on a baby stroller they like, they get forwarded to the original babystroller company via my affiliate url.

      The company sells a baby stroller, I make a commission.
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    Someone stole loads of my HubPages, so I used DMCA to take down their entire domain. Be careful with duplicate content. If you annoy somebody important, then you'll potentially look at an AdSense ban as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author Marketing Fool
      Originally Posted by brettb View Post

      Someone stole loads of my HubPages, so I used DMCA to take down their entire domain. Be careful with duplicate content. If you annoy somebody important, then you'll potentially look at an AdSense ban as well.
      Companies provide you with datafeeds specifically so that you use them. And they can revoke them at any time...it's not a DMCA type event. It's not stollen content, and if you repackage it using a database with other content it's not duplicate content...
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