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@silverbax88 - exactly! No matter how well designed or "active" websites may appear, if its only function is to send you to some affiliate offer - it's spam. T

@silverbax88 - exactly! No matter how well designed or "active" websites may appear, if its only function is to send you to some affiliate offer - it's spam. The best of them are very good at faking legit websites (even having an active "community" engaged in "discussion"). They are extremely good at faking normal human activity and I don't see the end to it. There's virtually nothing you can do that a script can't do also.

pbhjpbhj 14y ago
>if its only function is to send you to some affiliate offer - it's spam // I don't think this definition is quite right. A site can be good and still have as its raison d'etre referring you to a product manufacturer. After all any sales website is doing the same thing, there's just a certain distance between affiliate sites and the manufacturer. Don't get me wrong, a lot of affiliate sites are bogus, unhelpful and given unwarranted prevalence in SERPs; but that doesn't make them all bad. For example in the UK there are sites that offer money back on all purchases - they're affiliate sites that share the affiliate fee with the purchaser.
- sasha-dv 14y ago
  Monetizing your website with affiliate offers doesn't make it spam. Having no other purpose than to redirect a visitor to an offer - does. Especially if you use less than lilly white SEO techniques. Here's a nice way to put it: Google believes that pure affiliate websites do not provide additional value for web users, especially if they are part of a program that distributes its content to several hundred affiliates. Because a search result could return multiple sites, all with the same content, they create a frustrating user experience. And here's the rest of it: http://bit.ly/KWS1cz http://bit.ly/KWS1cz >For example in the UK there are sites that offer money back on all purchases I don't see the relevance.
  - pbhjpbhj 14y ago
    >I don't see the relevance. // The only purpose of those sites is to get you to follow affiliate links. Were you trying to refer to some sort of passthrough short-linking system or something?

pbhjpbhj 14y ago

>if its only function is to send you to some affiliate offer - it's spam // I don't think this definition is quite right. A site can be good and still have as its raison d'etre referring you to a product manufacturer. After all any sales website is doing the same thing, there's just a certain distance between affiliate sites and the manufacturer. Don't get me wrong, a lot of affiliate sites are bogus, unhelpful and given unwarranted prevalence in SERPs; but that doesn't make them all bad. For example in the UK there are sites that offer money back on all purchases - they're affiliate sites that share the affiliate fee with the purchaser.

sasha-dv 14y ago
Monetizing your website with affiliate offers doesn't make it spam. Having no other purpose than to redirect a visitor to an offer - does. Especially if you use less than lilly white SEO techniques. Here's a nice way to put it: Google believes that pure affiliate websites do not provide additional value for web users, especially if they are part of a program that distributes its content to several hundred affiliates. Because a search result could return multiple sites, all with the same content, they create a frustrating user experience. And here's the rest of it: http://bit.ly/KWS1cz http://bit.ly/KWS1cz >For example in the UK there are sites that offer money back on all purchases I don't see the relevance.
- pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  >I don't see the relevance. // The only purpose of those sites is to get you to follow affiliate links. Were you trying to refer to some sort of passthrough short-linking system or something?