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take the fake ones down. It is important to understand who the important players
and aggressive ad buyers are in a market before doing this ad display technique.
Affiliate Marketing Tips
Many people create huge affiliate sites using product feeds. The problem with
generic well-used feeds is that many other people will have the exact same content.
Since Google does not desire to show multiple copies of the same content, most of
the affiliate feed sites end up not getting indexed or are quickly removed from the
search results if they are indexed.
Some people end up adding RSS or other content to the pages to make them look
somewhat unique, but Google also employs remote content raters to evaluate sites.
If the site looks like it would not have a functional purpose outside of the affiliate
program, Google does not want it in their index. The instructions Google gave
remote content raters for determining if an affiliate site was useful was ?is there a
value-added service that would make users want to visit this site instead of the
original merchant site??
People do not usually buy from affiliate banners. A better way to create affiliate
sites is to create unique original content with what looks like unbiased reviews.
Whether you are affiliate marketing or creating your own merchant site, each
unique item or idea should have its own unique page with sufficient unique content
on it. If the only difference between items is size or color, then you might run into
duplicate content issues (if pages are too similar, then Google may assume they
offer little value or are of poor content quality
.
Lots of people offer sales letters, but if you create what looks like an original,
thoughtful, and honest review, you can send people to the official sites using text
links from within the reviews that convert exceptionally well. The less automated
your site and SEO techniques are, the greater chance it will do well in the long
term.
Many large affiliates also hide the affiliate links to make it harder for people to steal
their affiliate commission. Instead of pointing to ?www.merchant.com/?aff=123?,
they would use .htaccess or link to a simple redirect script on their own site and
point, for example, www.seobook.com/merchant to the merchant site using an
affiliate link.
Some people think Google hates affiliate marketers. They do not necessarily hate
affiliates, but they hate unoriginal or useless content cluttering their search index.
Most affiliate marketing sites are thin sites featuring duplicate content and other
useless garbage.
If you are new to the web and do not have much money to work with, one good
way to save money is to sell things to yourself using your own affiliate link. Some
merchants may not like this (it may violate some affiliate terms of service
, but