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What is a "Thin Affiliate Site"

by danb12
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Hey

What would Google class a thin affiliate site.

Whats a good amount of articles to be placed on a site to make up for the "thin" if your affiliate site is selling something.

In other words, if you are reviewing a product, and its only 300/400 words per page, can you make up with this by having a great a article section on your website with high quality unique content about 1000 words per article with on page SEO?

I'm trying to review products and the are quite hard to keep waffling on and on when I have already gone into depth about the product, and don't want to been seen as a thin affiliate site.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author NeilC
    The "thin affiliate site" tends to be mainly an Adwords issue although it can also obviously effect your search rankings as well.

    Best to read Google's guidelines but from my experience having very short content with too many affiliate links or ads is what gets it seen as a thin affiliate site.

    Don't confuse a "thin site" with only having a small number of pages, it's not the same thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
    A thin affiliate site is a site with very little useful content. It is a site that the user will see very little value in when he visits.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cataclysm1987
    If it looks like the only goal is for you to click an affiliate link without providing any real content, chances are it's a thin affiliate site.
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  • Profile picture of the author JOSourcing
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    Google defines thin affiliate sites this way: "These sites collect pay-per-click (PPC) revenue by sending visitors to the sites of affiliate programs, while providing little or no value-added content or service to the user. These sites usually have no original content and may be cookie-cutter sites or templates with no unique content."

    Little or no original content - Webmaster Tools Help
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  • Profile picture of the author affiliateg
    One thing you should do is to add more content and wait for google to index your website, and than add the affiliate links...
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