A few more comments
I dug up a few more references to some of the important stuff I was talking about.
See: Complete Website Templates for Affiliates.
Complete Website Templates for Affiliates.
Just shows the same problem, with different content, but the concept is the same.
I was not kidding about how bad it was for data feeds affiliates back then. I just found this old post where an affiliate describes his personal experience with the Google update and how it affected him.
Google Florida Dance and the effects on me - ABestWeb Affiliate Marketing Forum
I just came across two interesting articles to "Florida" and affiliates
SEO after Google's Florida Update
and data feeds and PHP/MySQL
Affiliate Data Feeds
They are good read, except for the annoying AdSense ads all over the place, but he seems to have written the stuff himself. It's not free to republish stuff so I can not refer to a different site with the same content (talking about replication). I seriously have to think about linking to him from my site.. mmh.
He mentioned this script, which is sold for $39.95
Datafeed-to-MySQL version 2.11
PHP | mill -- Datafeed-to-MySQL v. 2.11 DEMO
Does anybody uses this and could share his experiences and opinions about it? Is it worth it? I mean there are free scripts out there for this kind of stuff, but they are all over the place and not as flexible as needed to become a one stop shop. The $40 would be worth it, if the script delivers what it promises.
Thanks
p.s. Duplication in itsself is not a BIG problem (its still a problem, but the consequences are different), but massive duplication without providing anything unique is.