Any other Amazon Affiliates loose a ton of Google traffic this week?

by theactor19

Posted: 11 years ago 11 replies

Just wondering, for those that have Amazon links on their site, if you lost traffic from Google this week.

My site lost ranking for most of my best keywords. It is odd because, the site is a blog that is all whitehat, with a social media following, all unique useful content. It lost 75% of Google search traffic last week (wed. mar 13), and the only thing I can think of is that I have amazon affiliate links it. So wondering if other amazon affiliates had their sites loose traffic recently.

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Icematikx 11 years ago

I've noticed authority sites taking over a few of my niche sites. Authority sites being sites targeting every market possible. Seems Google are favoring larger sites over smaller, specific ones.

Still, my sites are holding up nicely between #1 and #4 for main keywords
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KuhNoodle 11 years ago

Sites do not get penalized from having affiliate links.... have you been building links naturally, you can't just build links and expect for your rankings to last forever. It's a constant battle. Remember what you've done once, you can do again.
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- theactor19 11 years ago
  
  I went from 1000 visitors a day to 150. This is still the case and has been for the past 5 days.
  
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- honnas 11 years ago
  
  I lost 90% of my traffic on the 6th. I had used a plug-in to generate my Amazon links with short codes which did not add nofollow. I went back and took the generated links out, replaced all Amazon links with the shortcode <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/ASIN-NUMBER/?tag=AMAZONID-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PRODUCT-NAME</a>.
  
  My site seems to have recovered, and I am back to normal traffic and conversions.
  
  Hope that helps!
  
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linkbuildr 11 years ago

Always nofollow affiliates links....if you're in affiliate marketing and don't know this by now, give yourself a smack in the face
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WebPunch 11 years ago

I don't see any negative changes happening to my site.. Everything is just going normal.. And as linkbuildr said make all your affiliate links no-follow..
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- honnas 11 years ago
  
  Believe me, it was a stupid mistake that I will not make again!
  
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Danny Cutts 11 years ago

I have not noticed anything :-)

My traffic has increased :-)
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theactor19 11 years ago

Hey Guys,

Okay so I just made all my affiliate links nofollow. Well actually, I am using a plugin (to save time), so it made all outbound links nofollow.

How long do you think it will take to for google to pick up on this and adjust my ranking (if this is the case of course)?
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xMizzlex 11 years ago

I lost ranking on one of my sites. Was sitting at #2, now it's at #4. All other sites and increased. Sunday was the biggest day of the year for me traffic wise.
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xMizzlex 11 years ago

I lost 3 sites on the 6th. Completely lost rank for every keyword. Then on the 12th, 2 came back better than ever. One is still down, but I'm always having problems with that site. I would wait it out a couple of week to see if it returns.
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