Amazon Generated Sites GONE From G!

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Here's what I know

Several of my sites that I used plugins to auto pull and generate content directly from Amazon are no longer ranking.

Also these sites were basically test sites to see if the content would rank for long tail keywords without adding, editing, or creating unique content.

Indeed the sites had many high rankings without doing squat but like clockwork with the latest update that started about Thurs this past week BAM no traffic.

Wondering if others using Amazon affiliate plugins experienced much if any loss in traffic regardless of using unique content, articles etc?
#search engine optimization #amazon #generated #sites
  • hello james,

    which plugins do you use to auto pull and generate contents on amazon ?
  • I haven't seen any changes for the sites I use them on, but for my sites I use a ration of 1:5 - for each amazon product post created with the plugin I have 5 unique articles on that site. I use it as an addition, not the main content source for my sites.

    Leslie
  • That's weird. My amazon site got better. Seeing record amounts of traffic for yesterday and today. And actually started to see some real click throughs.

    I used an automated plugin: WPRobot and a theme made for amazon from a WSO here.
    Offers no reveiws or separate content other than what the plugin pulls in. And is setup for straight up Ecommerce.

    What supports the sites traffic is "Real" content with a purpose.

    The site is in the Toys and Games niche and I use offsite content such as coloring pages, crossword puzzles, word find, paper dolls, pinterest, twitter, etc., to bring in the traffic.

    Works really well for me and I couldn't care less what Google thinks or does.

    I'm just now getting around to do the more conventional sources to gain more traffic. aka, article marketing, bookmarking...that stuff.
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  • Yep, quality of content is mattering more and more
  • Were your domain names based on the exact match searches?.
    If yes, then the google is decreasing the rankings of EMDs.
  • Until recently i've been building large autoblogs. Here is one thing i've noticed. The blogs would rank fine for long tail keywords until i added an Amazon widget in the sidebar. This means that you have an Amazon affiliate link on all/most of your blogs pages.

    Every time i did that, within a week the whole blog looses 99% of its Google traffic. I've had this happen on 10 autoblogs.

    But lets say you have a 20 page site and you only have affiliate links on 2 pages - your site should keep its rankings.

    Google is definitely penalizing sites were most of the pages have affiliate links. I've seen the same thing for Adsense. Don't put adsense on all/most of your sites pages or you will loose your rankings and G traffic.
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    • I don't agree with this one. I have a lot of sites with Adsense on ALL of the sites pages. Even the privacy page, which I admit probably isn't a good idea. I've never had any problems with this though.
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  • I think that your sites got down because you used a exact domain keyword and as you said they were mini sites without real content
  • Google wants you to write quality contents.
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    • As much as people don't want to hear it, it's really this simple.

      Folks have to ask themselves why Google would rank hdtvsunder300dollars.org over amazon.com when both sites display identical info. Heck, why would Google want to rank hdtvsunder300dollars.org for any reason if it contains no useful/original information?

      It's not hard folks.
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