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Posted by Trespasser on February 3, 2008, 5:19 am
Please log in for more thread options Hi Rich,
Thanks for the input regarding the Adsense moral issue test, and about the
rel="nofollow" tag.
The nofollow tag is an interesting one. I've always used the nofollow tag on
affiliate links as I can't see the point of either bleeding out PR, or of
promoting what effectively becomes an affiliate competitor site. One site I
had was working great like this, and then wham! Nothing but image search
engine traffic. Google seemed to have tagged it as affiliate rubbish
(guilty), and put it way down in the search returns queue.
I wonder if their isn't some sneaky means of preventing Google from ever
knowing they are dealing with an affiliate site, with or without nofollow
attributes? Maybe if outbound links were made to point to local files whose
sole purpose is to redirect to the affiliate site. We then block these local
redirection pages from Google's evil gaze with a robots.txt entry. Heavens,
that sounds like a lot of work. I guess if Google are onto the nofollow
trick (and I really don't know if they are or not) then they're probably
onto every other conceivable measure.
One thing's for sure. Google hates affiliate sites, and consequently I still
hate Google.
Tressie.
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> Newsgroups: alt.internet.search-engines
>> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: New record!
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>>> Was it all white hat ?
>>> Was it unique content ?
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>>> Was the site completely inside googles guidelines ?
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>> Not really sure on any of these points. This truly is terrible affiliate
>> crap (that worked well for a while), but see for yourself:
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http://members.iinet.net.au/~vanluynm/Hooch/White_Widow_Marijuana_Seed_And_Supplier_Review.php
>> Apart from the obvious moral issues there may be other reasons for it's
>> failure that I don't understand.
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> It might be interesting to put Google Adsense on there. If it comes back
> with on topic links, obviously the moral question doesn't concern Google.
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> Google allegedly hates affiliate links, so I might suggest adding
> "nofollow" to all your affiliate links.
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