MSN penalizes affiliate links

No pages with Amazon links are showing.

[vphoner]

I used to have dozens of pages on MSN that were indexed by MSN. Then all of the sudden they ALL disappeared except for one that did not have Amazon affiliate links. So as an experiment, I made two pages with only content with NO affiliate links. Guess what....these pages are now showing and ONLY those pages on the MSN index when you do the SITE: command.

Anyone else notice this? Is this unfair, or do we grin and bear it.?

[SuddenlySara]

Yeah, I bet soon MSN will have their own affiliate program, affiliates.msn.com beta

?

[viggen]

I havent noticed that, my ranking is unchanged at MSN... (and i have many amazon links)

[vphoner]

MSN appears to be penalizing those pages with text links
(Amazon). If your link is an iframe from Amazon, it does not appear to be penalized. Do you have iframes for Amazon links, or text links? A text links is linked to text or a picture. The iframe is served by amazon.

[viggen]

I have many text link based amazon links and as i said no change in the serps...

cheers
viggen

[martinibuster]

No change. It must be something else that's wrong with your site.

[followgreg]

You should refer to another post about missing pages and commented by MSNdude.
Hope fully they will fix that soon because if this is to compete with google's www/302 issues that's not the way to go IMO :)
Right now a lot of sites seem to be affected by some strange 'penalty' : homepages missing, sometimes whole domains missing - hopw they will straight it up soon because otherwise given that MSN does not provide the traffic Google does it could kill the billion dollar beat and I hear already some bad monthing at googleplex :)