Are your review sites g-slapped?

Mr. NZ said:
Google have been real bastards when it came to this; they happily turned a blind eye to it for the last year, but the second FTC get involved, and there were threats of a law suit for the 'Google Profit' Biz Op's they suddenly point the finger at the advertisers and ban everyone involved. Typical example of a big corporation, quick to point the finger to avoid heat.
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Honestly, put yourself in their place and lets say it was your business and your money. Would you have done it any differently? I am 100% sure you would gladly taking the big money day after day from rebill advertisers as long as you didn't have any problems. Then when YOU are threatened to be sued I am also 100% sure you would turn around and blame your advertisers and then ban them.

Come on man, be realistic. You probably blame "the man" and big corporations for all the worlds problems im sure.
 


The smarter affiliates have built white labels and put together their own products. This will keep them safe from any google BS.
 
I think it's better to wait for some stats about who is banned and look at reasons. Not everyone doing this shit have been banned.
 
Moreover I bet that lot of you knows that in some niches/industries mail list is not a best option, but review site perfect one. There should be some criterias, honest affiliates may bought this products and write their own review, no reason to ban them if that is the case.

Fuck....word of mouth is best form of advertising (inderect in this case - review) for many cases and this is just end of it, can't believe this honestly.
 
how is this news, i thought they have been slapping thin review sites for a long time.

i'm still seeing a lot of crappy clickbank review sites running and they are still the same ones i saw running many months ago.

those of you that got hit, did you guys cloak your affiliate links?
 
Some said that cloaking and php redirects helps, but I think it's not long way for Google to fuck them too
 
prince said:
how is this news, i thought they have been slapping thin review sites for a long time.
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the "news" is that they are apparently slapping all review sites now, not just the thin ones. I the point is that even if you are 100% legit about your recomend, having actually used the product involved, etc. The site would still be slapped by google -- because it's not worth their while to take the time to distinguish between them.

Thing I wonder about, is if they will extend the bann into an organic search penalty for review site that contain affiliate links. I think I see the writing on the wall here for affiliate review sites in general, relative to the big G
 
marfarma said:
the "news" is that they are apparently slapping all review sites now, not just the thin ones. I the point is that even if you are 100% legit about your recomend, having actually used the product involved, etc. The site would still be slapped by google -- because it's not worth their while to take the time to distinguish between them.

Thing I wonder about, is if they will extend the bann into an organic search penalty for review site that contain affiliate links. I think I see the writing on the wall here for affiliate review sites in general, relative to the big G
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were you actually affected? i've talked to a few guys doing review sites and they told me nothing's wrong, hmm..
 
I'm the OP -- and posted to see if things were as bad as all that. I've only really done organic stuff to date, but was gearing up to do ppc to a review site as my entre into that side of the biz. Wanted to see if it made sense to keep going that direction.

Your bud who are not affected, they're doing ppc traffic? Are they cloaking or redirecting to the affiliate? From the original post I referenced, redirected and cloaked links are not being hit -- but the thought is that it's only a matter of time until they will be as well.
 
Good news IMO, hopefully this will kill off the recent influx of noobs on adwords who are driving up the bid prices. Anybody with half a brain can build something better than a review lander.
 
Any solutions, I've tried almost everything. I never had any problems, I have 4/5 reviewed sites not even aff linked. I have over 40 pages of content, and did everything by the book via. privacy/contact/headers/articles etc...

I just thought some manual review guy just hated me, but now I know its a bigger problem, what is the solution that got it working for you?
 
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