Avoiding the "Thin Affiliate" Google Slap
I've been reading and have seen many examples of well-established sites that were brought to their knees by the dreaded Google slap of what they consider to be thin affiliate sites. You can easily search for "thin affiliate" or scan the Google webmaster forum to find clear cases of this.
I have a product review site and am concerned that I've been hit by this.
I'd like to hear your ideas about how you ARE or WILL BE adapting your site business model
and practices to avoid falling victim to this obvious Google policy to de-index these sites.
o Does it mean having in-content affiliate versus stand-along affiliate links?
o What should the ratio of informational/news posts to review posts be?
o How frequently do you have to post to avoid this?
o Does this mean the end of IM mini-sites?
Thanks
George
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