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Avoiding being a "thin affiliate"

by shinmenx
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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?
#avoiding #thin affiliate
  • Profile picture of the author stewball
    I feel the fewer the affiliate links per page the better. More than that and you just confuse the user.
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    • Profile picture of the author Vanquish
      Originally Posted by stewball View Post

      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.
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  • Profile picture of the author 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..
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  • Profile picture of the author 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.
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  • Profile picture of the author freedomguy
    Originally Posted by shinmenx View Post

    wait, there's a google affiliate program?

    tell me more about that.

    Yup! (google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork)
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  • Profile picture of the author 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
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