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Like a lot of people I've been whacked by Google this week, both my adult and mainstream blogs.

The logic behind Panda is quite simple. Google derives its income from their Adwords system. Therefore they have no interest in having sites that sell things at the top of organic search results, competing with their Adwords. In their world - if visitors want to buy things, then they should click on a Google adword, and if advertisers (inc. affiliates) want to sell things, they should pay to advertise on Google Adwords.

The whole idea of affiliate marketing is to get to the top of Google, and to get the search engine visitors to a sponsors site as quickly as possible. The successful affiliate marketer is now going to be penalised by Google.

The motivational logic might not apply to adult affiliate marketing, but the Google algorithm for adult is pretty much the same as for mainstream.

Affiliate marketing in its current form is pretty much dead from this point. The adult affiliate industry in any cost effective form is likely about to die. It was hard enough before competing with the tubes and the forums, now it's going to become impossible.