Getting a lot of unexpected SE traffic lately? You may be FUCKED
 

A very close source recently (past 2 months) experienced a SURGE in SE traffic. Indeed, if you do a Yahoo / MSN search for his sponsor's main site, you get his aff ID.

Continued at http://justtraffic.blogspot.com

that rocks :thumbsup

Hmmmm. While it is plausible it would have been nice if there was any supporting details to back up the story.

EVEN IF his link was SEOd, it was picked up from galleries and such, I have seen tons of guys get listings for links on other pages they didn't seo THAT link. How can you use a redirect/landing page on a link the SE picks up on its own without you promoting? I had a Teen Kelly link in google for a month and I only submitted galleries but Google indexed the sponsor link.

Your story may be true, but the concept behind your solution is flawed.

thats happened to me plenty of times, where my aff code just shows on the se when u search for specific sites... u get alot of signups hehe

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What the hell are you talking about?
That's hardly ever the case. There's so many ways this could have happened.

wow, that's pretty cool. moolah.

thats messed up

When building traffic to an affiliate site it may be better to redirect your affiliate links to your own site.

It is better to put a page on your site about products/services, good seo. Then from your main domain link to the affiliate landing page.

Two good reasons:

1. Bring the traffic to your domain instead of someone elses. You keep control of your traffic. If an affiliate program disappears, you can usually find another to replace it with. If you have building up sending the traffic direcly to the affiliate system, it will take more time to recover.

2. Some affiliate programs only count sales from the domain name you gave them when you signed up. So if you are promoting on a different domain you are losing sales and probably don't even know it (this happens more in mainstream hopefully).

none of this matters anyway, there is no money is SEO

good advice,

also helps filter your traffic and gives you those super conversion ratios everyone seems to like so much.

I must agree with the right honorable gentleman from SoCal

Do you know of any adult programs like this?

I had that happen to me with flyntdigital.. the signups poured in.. lasted about 6 months

Yeah, I remember when askjeeves listed my sponsor link :thumbsup

no, that is why I mentioned mainstream

Okay, just checking :)

Im sure this happens. What's probably more likely is that there was some sort of auto-complaint script that was run to make automated abuse complaints with supporting materials. This used to happen all the time with MSN.

However, if (implied in the original post) the link was not being promoted via SEO, you'd have a stronger case that the link was 'hyped' up via spam pages so the sponsor will knock out that acct.

Would not be surprising at all.

baddog:

Wot ya talking about baddog? There is no money or future in SEO or any strategy for websites :-)