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Most affiliate spam sites that I see cover the page in intrusive advertisements to maximize revenue. Penalizing intrusive ads would certainly have some effect.
by lumost 5y ago
Most affiliate spam sites that I see cover the page in intrusive advertisements to maximize revenue. Penalizing intrusive ads would certainly have some effect. This is also referring to penalizing rankings so that the entire page gets downranked rather than simply blocking ads in your browser.
- cratermoon 5y agoIt still wouldn't do much because as soon as Google starts to try to identify sites full of ads by some criteria, shady sites are going to start serving ads in some other way. It's already hard enough to distinguish ads in some sites that have gone with native ads or advertorials.