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Originally Posted by Squirtit
5.1.1 Recognizing Thin Affiliates
To help determine if a page is a thin affiliate, you can do the following:
- Click buttons on the page. Click on a ?More Information? or ?Make a Purchase? button. If you are taken to a merchant on a different domain, it is probably a thin affiliate. You will not be able to make the purchase on the affiliate webpage.
- 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
- 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.
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Affiliate pages that include original content in addition to the affiliate link are not spam - that sentence is the most important.
However, current google serps shows a lot of spam pages and that whole Panda update is ridiculous