Comments on: What The New Google Slap Means For Your Affiliate Business

By: Kerri

Kerri — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:55:15 +0000

I hate to get off topic, but the launch of keywordelite20 is out, and haven’t seen your bonus offered yet. Come on, what gives? I know, I am an impatient person. With all of these bonuses out there, I’m waiting on just yours!

By: Udi

Udi — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:16:41 +0000

Excellent post.

Although I agree with what you say, I think Google has gone way beyond what it was expected. Some unrelated people were slapped. Some unrelated companies were slapped. As a result, I believe there’ll be a trend of shifting a way from Google, and I even wrote an article about this (Sorry to self promote, but I really think this is relevant: http://www.industryreview.org/search-engines/drifting-away-from-google-beginning-of-a-trend )

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| ruthstewartmarketing.com — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:03:02 +0000

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By: Paul Easton

Paul Easton — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:10:19 +0000

Thanks andrew- I do have an interesting experience to share – I have niche firepow site, which has had a fair amount of SEO done to it, and was ranking at Number 1. It is an adsense site with unique content. Because this was an obsquare niche with no clickbank products in the niche.

I then added an image- with an affiliate like to amazon. I then waited till Google had re indexed the page – the site then dropped to 46.

To test it I have removed the affiliate link to confirm that it was the cause, but have had some problems with hosting/wordpress – will see what happens when Google reindexs the changed site.

To my knowleadge- this is the only test i have seen to seen what google thinks of affiliate links (I known Google can follow and see reconized redirects) maybe affiliate marketeres will be “pushed” to List building?

By: Get Rid of Warts

Get Rid of Warts — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:12:28 +0000

Thanks for your interesting post. It makes one wonder about the tactics that Google uses to slap people that are paying them money to advertise with them. This is either not good business sense, unless they are only slapping low quality adverts – in which case, it makes good sense. Even though they may lose some customers, they will retain their reputation as providing good quality only, so will benefit in the long run.

From what i have seen in the past, they have tended to slap anyone and everyone. Maybe they think they are so big that they can do what they like and not suffer any consequences?

Food for thought…….

Barry

By: Carlos Scarpero

Carlos Scarpero — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:26:17 +0000

It seems to me that this slap was not a site wide slap. There are still tons of direct linkers and skinny affiliates in the niches that I’m in.

Google would be completely stupid to slap every affiliate website. They wouldn’t make any money and bottom line they are in this for a profit.

By: Alex Newell

Alex Newell — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:11:49 +0000

Thank you Andrew for pointing out some odd things about this that I had missed.

I am on Perry’s list so I got this early on. I have no real idea what is behind this “scam” but I went back and read down the comments.

What a pile of drivel!

But thanks for pointing out the comment ( number 66 ) on sites using Google’s name! I have wondered for years how these guys were getting away with it when google is zealous at protecting trademarks in Adwords.

Another “fun” comment ( 55) was from Jerry West.

Keep it coming Andrew!

By: bk

bk — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:52:34 +0000

[quote] “the nature of making sites for organic traffic is that you’re providing content first, and if you’re not providing unique content and getting links from authoritative sites in the same circles, you’re not getting Google’s traffic”

This is not correct: There are tens of thousands of e-commerce sites that strictly promote a product/s that are listed number one. Google understands that a lot of searches are people looking to buy something NOW. They do not need content they need choices and an order form. Ebay certainly isn’t lacking Google love for its lack of content: EBAY=PROMOTE PROMOTE PROMOTE

That said, a small nich marketer would have to use content as a tool to get anchored backlinks and therefore perform better in the serps.

Good post btw