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Seems like the amount of affiliate links is the issue. I guess it's hard for search engines to tell the difference between spammy review sites made for affiliat
by babaganoosh89 8y ago
Seems like the amount of affiliate links is the issue. I guess it's hard for search engines to tell the difference between spammy review sites made for affiliate links and the author's site.
- sct202 8y agoAt first glance it's hard for me to tell that this isn't regular run of the mill affiliate search result spam.
- p1necone 8y agoI can't tell the difference between this and a spammy review site just for affiliate links. He's paraphrasing the main points in amazon reviews in a short paragraph and putting a link at the bottom. I don't really see what I gain from this vs just looking at popular products on amazon directly.
- midef 8y agoI weed out the products that have excessive fake reviews, above-average prices and some other interesting "tells" that I've discovered (e.g. the 4-star reviews are amended 1-star reviews that have been changed because the customer received a replacement product).
- p1necone 8y agoThanks for the reply. I do see how you could have honed a knack for picking out particular tells like those, that knowledge isn't going to be immediately obvious to most consumers.
- midef 8y agoI considered this and decided to withhold affiliate links for the first couple months of the site's existence. It didn't seem to make much of a difference one way or another.