Comments on: Are Affiliate Links Paid Links? Are They A Vote? Or Spam?

By: Carsten Cumbrowski

Carsten Cumbrowski — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:36:23 +0000

“There is no reason why you can’t nofollow an affiliate link. Then you have no problem.”

Except for being a liar. I don’t care if you don’t have a problem with that, but I do. Let’s nofollow any and every link and become all liars then, problem solved. Nobody will have a problem, not even Google, except for the need to work out a real solution.

“This could even be more dangerous to Google….a rise in Affiliate links.”

yes, Google would make a lot less money, because it would cut into their AdSense revenue.

It will be terrible, imagine editorial created links by the owner of the website instead of random ads from every jerk who has $5 to open an AdWords account and $1 more to spend on Ads in the “content network”.

If junk gets displayed, the webmaster is save, because he can say that he can’t control what gets displayed (what is true) and Google says that its done algorithmically and the they are constantly working on improving it (which is also true). So nobody is responsible except for the user who decided to use the internet.

Brave new world.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:12:44 +0000

There is no reason why you can’t nofollow an affiliate link. Then you have no problem.

This could even be more dangerous to Google….a rise in Affiliate links.

By: felix

felix — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:59:51 +0000

I would be very aware of all Googles regulations and not cross Google. I have made one mistake and my domain got banned from Google whithin a few days.

By: Search Engine Journal

Search Engine Journal — Wed, 16 May 2007 05:23:39 +0000

Fixing Google Web 2.0 Style II

How to fix what is broken and not break what is not
This post is part of a series. See Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4
Collateral Damage
A change in policy would only result in two things. One, the people that traded links for the wrong reasons are SEO and…

By: Heather Paulson

Heather Paulson — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:47:55 +0000

I have seen this before, Google pressures us to police ourselves, they turn us against each other for the sake of destroying any link matrix’s that might help the little guy get ahead in natural search. If we turn each other in it is less of a cost for them to attempt it, it will also increase their paid search as merchants run to them to fill in the void.It is easier and cheaper for them to turn us into their link task force as their bots can not read the truth behind a static href, how would they know it was paid for unless you squeal or unless there was some tracking or a click domain behind the link?

I have never and will never turn anyone into Google.