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Originally Posted by AaronM
If the shoe fits.....
Lets face it, most affiliates are worthless these days. Plastering the same shit everywhere. Personally, I'm VERY happy that Google is penalizing this.
Here's an idea....Become a REAL webmaster who creates your own unique content to supplement what the affiliate programs give you. I know this is far fetched as it requires actual work instead of just copy and paste.
Google should have made this move years ago.  |
Agree.
If you have great websites there's no need to rely on google. Google just brings free traffic.
I see that the most affected webmasters are the ones with crappy websites(blogs made from rss feeds with some low quality thumbs and full of outbound links, skimmed traffic, popunders, plugs, mostly ads webpages, fake video thumbs, etc.)
I like the changes that google adopted and if you build some clean websites with content, and few but well blended ads you will like the changes too. Since the affiliates are promoting content they should create quality websites to make the user happy. A Happy user will buy, a user that is annoyed by the popunders and fake thumbs will close the page.
Anyway, most webmasters will continue to build same crappy websites just to cookie stuff and will continue to bitch about google.
Since the last summer my traffic from google increased, and the conversion increased even if I don't use any popunders or deceptive tactics like fake thumbs. The user wants content and clean sites and I respect the user.