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. SSL Web Sites Don't Get Ranking Boost In Google – Search Engine RoundtableThere are no ranking...
Many large web retailers offer affiliate programs. Last year at SXSW, Cutts hinted at a coming algorithm update to punish sites guilty of "over-optimization", which fueled tons of speculation and dread until Google launched the Penguin update last...
Link networks are a group of websites with common registrars, common IPs, common C-blocks, common DNS, common analytics and/or common affiliate code. They are hammering websites built on link schemes and rewarding sites with a natural backlink...
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. A much more realistic approach for larger sites is to look at user...
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). Many sites hit with a manual link penalty use SENuke or something similar.
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. Copy and paste all those low-hanging keywords into the Google Keyword Tool (GKT...
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
Google recently adjusted their Webmaster Guidelines to state that affiliate sites with very little good, unique content might not rank well. The guidelines state “As a result, sites featuring mainly content from affiliate networks can suffer in...
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...
Similar analysis can be done by looking at specific source of traffic (paid, natural, affiliate) or specific page types (product, category, search pages etc. From 10 pages views onwards, the conversion average continues to rise, but nowhere near as...
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? It also means there's a potential for netting links back to our site from other sites they write for (assuming they're open to that), which is a nice bonus. Some external links added to trusted sites.
Others may be deceptive, having only been created to make money via ads or affiliate links rather than to provide helpful information. Also, these sites likely have an overwhelmingly negative reputation.
In addition to this, late last year a copy of the Google Quality Rating Guidelines was leaked with certain sections firing a clear warning shot to affiliate sites by defining those which it felt to be “thin”:
If you have 2,000 items from an affiliate feed then your site isn't all that great in Google's eyes. Google wants to reward sites that have good signals, said Cutts. Taking this action was a big change and sites were unhappy but Google thought it...
Very few organizations completely lack the ability to create something link worthy (save for the exception of some thin affiliate sites and resellers without their own value proposition). Search engines want sites to earn their links.
Should You NoFollow Affiliate Links? Hacked sites may abuse rich snippets, in which case Google may demote sites abusing them or take them away. In some cases, sites hit by Panda and Penguin might be further ahead just to scrap the site and start...
Google’s Penguin algorithm update has impacted several travel affiliate websites. What did all those travel sites have in common? A search engine optimization (SEO) strategy that depended heavily on a non-diverse link profile with a majority of...
