Site appears to consist of low-quality or shallow pages which do not provide users with much added value (such as thin affiliate pages, doorway pages, cookie-cutter sites, automatically generated content, or copied content).
Your link partner might add a nofollow or adds affiliate tracking to the link. Although natural links should be seen as votes of confidence, sometimes a link is an agreed obligation for business partners, discounts, or other deals.
For example, if you have affiliate links on your site, you can calculate a conversion rate from knowing the number of clicks to the number of people who purchase something via the affiliate link. If you add Disallow: /go/ into your robots.txt file...
Your site visitors may click a display ad, perform an organic search, see a blog post or review or find an affiliate link. After releasing a barrage of new reports to help you understand attribution from multi-channel funnel reports, attribution...
Says Tricia Meyer, who operates 12 affiliate sites including SunshineRewards.com, and averages $25 million in annual sales, says that while larger affiliate sites may be run off a database and need to replace a single link per merchant in that...
Feedly, the Google Reader alternative, adds Amazon affiliate ads – Andrew RH GirdwoodAfter adding 3 million+ new users, Feedly looking to make money. Ask the Ex-Googlers Anything at BrightonSEO – Linkdex BlogEx-Googlers Fili Wiese, Alfredo...
In December 2009, they had already made it known that even bloggers were expected to disclose any remuneration (such as free samples or affiliate commissions) that might prompt or influence reviews. If you run ads on your site, receive any...
Many large web retailers offer affiliate programs. Features that will help you determine if a website is a true merchant include: a “view your shopping cart” link that stays on the same site.a shopping cart that updates when you add items to it.a...
Link networks are a group of websites with common registrars, common IPs, common C-blocks, common DNS, common analytics and/or common affiliate code. The worst time to conduct a link audit is when you need to.
Affiliate Content and Links Some companies decided to add an affiliate component to their core domains. They had built up strong domain authority and wanted to use that authority to drive organic search traffic to affiliate pages.
The SEO and affiliate forums are littered with site owners who continue to practice the same low value tactics in spite of the clear dangers because they were cheap and they worked. Proper pagination is highly effective at distributing link equity...
Are coming from link networks (a group of websites with common registrars, common IPs, common C-blocks, common DNS, common analytics and/or common affiliate code). Conduct a Link Analysis Many sites hit with a manual link penalty use SENuke or...
Rather, I’m suggesting you can prioritize the bulk of your efforts on low-hanging keywords as an ongoing strategy with clients or your own affiliate and lead gen sites. We've also engaged in link building (both domain level and deep page links) as...
All that really changed is you have a much harder time getting away with “crappy” (thin affiliate, spun or just poorly written) content. Participating in affiliate programs without adding sufficient value
I was lucky enough to be included in an amazing crowdsourced affiliate link post a while back and reading over it again, I am still blown away by some of the creative ideas that people mentioned, so that's definitely worth a read (and not a rehash...
If 90 percent of the Google population only reads the first page in Google, then let’s control the space and make sure the information they get isn't an affiliate spammer, the-do-not-know-what-we-dos, Demand Medias, eHows, Wikipedias, or the same...
For example, Google Analytics offers variables for referring source (site, affiliate, etc) and medium (email, cpc, referral, etc) and keywords used. What if the visitor likes what they see but wants more info before filling out your form or...
If you're an affiliate who has done well without having to have loads of content and you've never done anything to violate Google's guidelines, what are your thoughts on their new issue with "thin affiliate" sites?
Can I add affiliate links for you? While much of the content from these resources is passable and works for certain lower-value projects, you really can't rely on it for client-facing projects, nor are they ideal for content marketing or link...
If you have 2,000 items from an affiliate feed then your site isn't all that great in Google's eyes. Otherwise, Google doesn't want to highly rank the same content with one different link, as that's close to doorway pages.
