thecloser - 4:53 pm on Sep 25, 2009 (gmt 0)

I got this email message today as well. Some contacts I have actually got a similar message except they were banned.

Someone check my logic on this:

1) Affiliates were the only ones to ever experience the "google slap" historically. (I'm taking 'your domain is toast 1/10 slaps, not 2/10 +)

2) Affiliates have been bragging about just grabbing a new domain and relaunching, which makes Google's policies look retarded. Google hates looking retarded.

3) If you have been slapped at any point in the past, BUT have NEVER HAD A WARNING, you got a warning email today. In the future, instead of getting slapped, you'll just get banned, and they'll point back at this warning as fair reason.

4) If you slapped in the past and HAVE ALREADY received a warning email before this, you got banned today.

I think they're sick of the cat and mouse with affiliates and are just going to start whacking accounts rather than 1/10 slapping all the time.