Avoiding the Ban Hammer

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I really want to avoid getting banned from adsense. I think I have done everything correct. Only 3 ads, site has real content, no dead pages, etc.

However my site is geared to helping people find certain products. I know adsense + amazon are fine. But i am using an eccomerce sites affiliate network.

Since the links were ugly I have used pretty link lite to alter the affiliate links (307 redirect no-follow) from there crappy look, to, mydomain.com/shop/productname

I am not sure if this is link cloaking/masking/whatever but I am wondering if google adsense would Ban you for this?
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  • Profile picture of the author BacklinksPlus
    If your putting adsense on your website, you better play by the rules. Google will know all after you add that code.
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  • Profile picture of the author dennis09
    I've never had any problems with Adsense while cloaking affiliate links that way. But as a heads up, if you're using this type of cloaking to avoid an algorithmic penalty, it doesn't work. Google still sees the affiliate links and too many will get you dropped off the map. I guess it's still useful if you want to make the links "pretty" or track through some other application.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      No reason to do what you are doing. You can't really hide stuff that way
      anyway.

      You must not be making any money with adsense, or else you would not
      even think about mudding the pages up with affiliate links like that.

      Either go adsense whole hog, or go affiliate. They both are probably
      hurting each other.

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      • Profile picture of the author Matthew Anton
        Not true. Adsense and Affiliate marketing are complimentary. On one of my physical product review sites, if someone doesn't want to buy the product, at least they have a chance to see a relevant alternative (ad) from adsense. Without this, you would be losing $$ and the visitor would bounce from your website unless they always clicked through to buy the product, which is certainly not the case. I've noticed it's near 50/50 between adsense and affiliate marketing in terms of revenue earned.

        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        No reason to do what you are doing. You can't really hide stuff that way
        anyway.

        You must not be making any money with adsense, or else you would not
        even think about mudding the pages up with affiliate links like that.

        Either go adsense whole hog, or go affiliate. They both are probably
        hurting each other.

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        • Profile picture of the author AffiliatingAlan
          Originally Posted by Matthew Anton View Post

          Not true. Adsense and Affiliate marketing are complimentary. On one of my physical product review sites, if someone doesn't want to buy the product, at least they have a chance to see a relevant alternative (ad) from adsense. Without this, you would be losing $$ and the visitor would bounce from your website unless they always clicked through to buy the product, which is certainly not the case. I've noticed it's near 50/50 between adsense and affiliate marketing in terms of revenue earned.
          So my thought was right, atleast for you.

          Do you mask/cloak links and have you had any problems with google adsense mixing affiliate links and adsense?

          I ask because I know people are getting banned for very little these days.
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    • Profile picture of the author AffiliatingAlan
      Originally Posted by dennis09 View Post

      I've never had any problems with Adsense while cloaking affiliate links that way. But as a heads up, if you're using this type of cloaking to avoid an algorithmic penalty, it doesn't work. Google still sees the affiliate links and too many will get you dropped off the map. I guess it's still useful if you want to make the links "pretty" or track through some other application.
      Yes sir, it is simply for being "pretty" for users that hover over the link. Apart from that it was also because google tends to not like affiliate links so the 307 redirect "potentially" hides them. Whether this is so or not, top authority sites I see using this.

      As far as the multiple affiliate penalty, thats usually only in very high amounts like 30 per page. I have maybe 1 or 2 per page, on maybe 10 pages.
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      • Profile picture of the author AffiliatingAlan
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        No reason to do what you are doing. You can't really hide stuff that way
        anyway.

        You must not be making any money with adsense, or else you would not
        even think about mudding the pages up with affiliate links like that.

        Either go adsense whole hog, or go affiliate. They both are probably
        hurting each other.


        Paul
        The site is a resource to help people "find" products, its not for amazon reviews. Pretend your interested in yugioh and you want to find specific cards from specific series or something like that. Thats my sites goal.

        It was originally inteded to be 100% adsense but I then found a few of the eccomerce sites I was going to link to offered affiliate programs.

        8% commission and most products are about 20$. each.

        This is why I stuck affiliate links up. It was merely coincidental and/or lack of initial research in this area I guess. It was just a bonus.

        I have been people monetize with adsense and amazon and make more money than they otherwise would have.

        It seems like unless your giving instructions, that almost any site can be monetized with amazon for something. Sometimes the products can be so low that people dont bother, like "the benefits of olive oil" @ 5$ a bottle people will just go to a grocery store. So this becomes an adsense site.

        However, at 20$ a pop this was kind of in the middle and they can only be bought online so i added it.

        Originally Posted by yukon View Post

        Why would you want Adsense on the page If you already have the product?
        Adding to above, for the homepage, and for the various articles geared to not sell products I guess.
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        • Profile picture of the author AffiliatingAlan
          Also wouldnt people who want to buy be less inclined to click adsense because they have a current short term purpose.

          ie "i dont care about that hotels ad or that game ad atm because I need to buy x"
          there on a mission so they hop on your affiliate link

          the people who land on your site that decided to not buy might click the ad because there not really focused on buying anymore

          Just a thought
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Why would you want Adsense on the page If you already have the product?
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  • Profile picture of the author Samuel Adams
    So long as you have rich content on your site, you shouldn't have a problem with using both Amazon and Adsense on the same pages. The only problem that Google seems to have are 'thin affiliate sites' which use copied reviews and content off of Amazon or a product manufacturer's site. Since you are publishing original content about the products you are linking to, then you are actually doing a good service for the site user and Google should have no complaints.
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  • Profile picture of the author seonutshell
    If you are selling something on your site, and you put adsense on your site, you run the risk of people clicking on your adsense ad and buying elsewhere. Yes you get money from that click, but you would have probably made more by getting a commission for whatever you where trying to sell.
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