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As long as the content is found on your website first before anything else you should be ok with the panda update. Regarding the datafeed and resellers or affiliates, its just the way it is, they run the risk of being flagged with duplicate content. There cats and sub cats should contain unique content then its up to them to either block Google from the duplicate content pages which will 99% of the time be product pages, which means know long tail keyword terms or roll with it and combat it with different SEO methods. Far as I can see there is know work around, what your describing is a overall problem for all resellers and affiliates.

I wouldn't consider this as an SEO decision, but a human decision. Is this the best method for your users? Is this the most efficient way for them to be able to perform this particular action? Any negativity is going to affect your users more than it will your SEO I believe in this case. As to Google bots seeing the pop-up, a general rule I use is if you can see it in the source code of your site, Google can, too.

Thanks Gianluca, We fall under number 4.

I would use the current posts as the blog area of the eCommerce website, I would then create new cats for the products you actually want to push. If you find one of your posts is relevant to a product I would then create an anchor text link back to the product, I would even keep that blog section running with the posts and keep linking out to products when relevant.

I know, it seemed odd to me that after they had been up for a few weeks (and apparently for everyone, not just certain people's serp's) that he would say it was "still a test".  He himself even said he thought Google was overdoing it a bit because of how much space it took up.

An SEO who thinks adding thousands of useless pages will do a website good? Get rid of them, or (preferably) get them re-educated!

hopefully that is correct.  I would hate to get knocked down just because I took myself out of the wayback machine.  I have had the domain registered in my name since 2006 so I should be ok then.

JB , If I was to do that I would use Open Site Explorer and Majestic but since we're here and I'm a mozzer I recommend using OSE advance reports to adjust filters according to your definition of spammy . Hope this helps Mik Pam

Hi, You are not the only one experiencing issues at the moment. Best to report your problem direct to support [at] seomoz.org with details of what you are seeing. The Rankings system is in Beta at present so far as I know, so just need to let the Moz staff know ASAP. Sha

Hi, I would recommend reading the recent blog post from Kate Morris eCommerce Syndicated Content: How to Win I know the feeling of being faced with a couple of thousand product descriptions with this problem (and unfortunately it gives me no joy to think "I told you so"), but all you can really do is take it one product at a time 

As much as we love OSE here, it is not a good bet for doing a complete inventory of your entire current site. I'd probably recommend a desktop crawler, like Xenu or Screaming Frog. See my comparison post here: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/crawler-faceoff-xenu-vs-screaming-frog I've got to believe that there's some logic that could connect the old and new URLs, though, even if it has to go through a database look-up. Creating 15,000 manual redirect rules isn't only going to be a huge pain, it may cause a huge processing bottleneck. I'd really push back on what "can't" means and why it can't be done. Too often, "can't" is code for "don't want to", in my experience.

Thank you Daylan, the 301 help instantly. Great suggestion.

I'm not sure. It was the first thing that popped to my mind. I'd have to spend some time googling it though as I've never actually done this.