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11,800 pages are still listed but now only 8 are non supplemental. The site was generating a lot of top 10 placements for related searches in this field but now they're all gone.
Is this issolated or is Google really cracking down on affiliate sites these days?
Google has hired human editors to axe sites from the index. I lost half of my empire last fall and cannot even show up with supplemental pages for some domains.
Google has hired human editors to axe sites
do you know this for certain? are you referring to google eval? Because if so thats not what they did.
well apparently the almighty MC said G wasn't after affiliate sites just thin sites / pages so if you've got solid content having an affiliate link shouldn't be a problem - but then again that depends if you want to believe the spin
I believe the OP was talking about the Google "search index" where webmasters have their sites listed for "free" and use SEO tactics to be found. I was also posting about the Google "search index" where I lost half of my domains and cannot get them reindexed.
Google has hired human editors to axe sitesdo you know this for certain? are you referring to google eval? Because if so thats not what they did.
I have no idea what "Google Eval" is so I cannot even address your question. Read my original post once again perhaps?
Google makes far too much money from affiliate websites
Once again, I believe the OP was posting about sites listed in the "free search index" not anything that is paid for (Adwords?). I was posting about the "free search index" as well.
How is it that Google can make money from my affiliate website that was listed in the "free search index?"
Be thankful you are still in the Supplemental index and have some chance of being found.Google has hired human editors to axe sites from the index. I lost half of my empire last fall and cannot even show up with supplemental pages for some domains.
From your post it is not possible to say how you came by that information. Is it a best guess? Do you have information from within the plex? Given its implications it would be helpful if you could add some meat to the bones of that statement because as it stands I know of nothing out there that can substantiate that statement.
Does that have something to do with Google's search index?
An owner has a hosting company as his main site and 21 sites in his "network". The other sites, with the exception of just one, look built for adsense and amazon. The description of every single page of every site on the network is identical! 100,000 identical descriptions but goo is keeping him there and mostly non-supplemental. Many #1-5 rankings on the one decent site.
He has 3 sites that are 100% amazon affiliate products and the only other text is whats written in the adsense ads and text link ads.PR6 on the more decent site, PR5 solid accross all other sites. Most look like mfa's.
BUT, and its a bigie, not only is he not getting penalized for his amazon and adsense and link ads use apparently adsense has granted him a ticket to publish money with their as of yet unreleased products. One of the prodcts he's apparently testing for G looks like a forum post and its deceiving to say the least.
[edited by: eljefe3 at 4:35 am (utc) on July 7, 2007]
