reseller - 8:37 pm on May 27, 2005 (gmt 0)

MikeNoLastName

>In order to banish the affiliate and scraper sites G has started penalizing linking OUT of ALL kinds! Think about it in regards to your own rank degradations this time around. Like I think I heard EFV mention too, the pages with the most external links have been degraded the most.<

You and EFV are 1/2 right ;-)

From my observations I have noticed that within several categories pages wich are "rich" with outbound links have lost their ranking on the serps. But it seems that it is a number game after all.

It seems that Google penalize only pages which contain outbound links exceeding a certain maximum number. Something around 100 though Iīm not so sure of the exact limit yet, but Iīm testing ;-).
Therefore you shouldnīt be surprise if you see a #1 page on the serp containing for example 84 oubound links.

As to affiliate programs, I donīt see them the way some fellow members do. Affiliate program is a serious business model and to earn anything out of affiliate marketing you should do a serious and hard work. But as in all branches of business, there is good and bad.

As I mentioned in a previous message, I see Google attempting to limit the presence of pages related to affiliate marketing from the top of the serps. But the example I gave today from google UK illustrated very clear that they are still there.