I'm thinking about buying a domain which I would use to create a kind of mock directory / informational website which would display products for my ecommerce website and direct potential customers to the actual product page on my ecommerce website. The mock site would list the actual products (with pictures) from the ecomm. site. Click on pic and it would take them to the actual individual product page on the ecomm site. I'm hoping that this site would boost traffic to the ecomm. site but also improve Google ranking of the ecomm. site since all products on mock site would link to ecomm. site... What do you think? I wouldn't get banned for this, would I?
You wouldn't get banned, no. Your time could probably be spent better elsewhere. If you want to get your products mirrored there are better ways to do it. Generate an XML feed of your products and submit to Google Base. Sign up to some affiliate networks and get others selling the product. If you're after backlinks use something like siteburner.net to generate a large network of sites like the one you're talking about, or just do some directory marketing with something like seolinkvine