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Old 10-26-2011, 01:38 PM  
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Check properties of images on the page. Right-click on an image on the page with your mouse and look at ?Properties? to see where the image originates. Check to see if the address of the image is the same as the address of the page or if it is the address of a ?real? merchant? Look for original content on the page. Affiliate pages that include original content in addition to the affiliate link are not spam
always seen this as a potential 'red flag' and have stayed away from using sponsor feeds partially because of this

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Look at the domain registrants. If clicking a button takes you to another page, check to see ?who is? the registrant (or owner) of the two domains. If the registrant is the same, the page is not a thin affiliate. Please follow the instructions for checking whose in Section 3.3.1.
sure hope they don't use this logic in the algo (i think they said it doesn't factor in...?)
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