Avoiding being a "thin affiliate"

[shinmenx]

If your website is only one page but it promotes many products (as opposed to having a main page with many links to different pages in your domain and each of those pages promotes one product), would that be considered a "thin affiliate"?

The page still "contributes value" to the user (ie. it's not just a giant list of affiliate links), it's just only one page long instead of many.

Is that bad?

[stewball]

I feel the fewer the affiliate links per page the better. More than that and you just confuse the user.

[Vanquish]

Originally Posted by stewball

I feel the fewer the affiliate links per page the better. More than that and you just confuse the user.

Agreed I like to have one page solely dedicated to the product im promoting. If im promoting a different product I create a new page. More so do not include any banner ads or ad sense as it just distracts the potential buyer.

[jasonl70]

here's what's funny - google could care less if you build an aggregate shopping site that does not generate affiliate income, but make the links affiliate links and they hate you.

Heck - google has their own 'shopping results' in the serps. And what do you know - it's monetized via adwords..

[jefftowle]

Have you seen the peel back page. Iam knew to this but it seems like a good idea. I kinda ran out of money at this point but think i might try it. If you know about it i would like some opinions on it.

[freedomguy]

Originally Posted by shinmenx

wait, there's a google affiliate program?

tell me more about that.

Yup! (google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork)

[MisterMunch]

Who sais google hate affiliates?

If affiliates make a site that is the most usefull for that keyword they will get listed. Similar to if any other website.

The best content + The best and most relevant incoming links = Top Rankings