will i be considered a thin affiliate if all my links are on one page?

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metalhead

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say you have a site with some affiliate links but they're all on a homepage rather than on individual pages. As long as the page has content on it besides the links (such as product pictures and descriptions), are you in any danger of being labeled a "thin affiliate"?

edit - if it matters, all my affiliate links are .htaccess redirected
 


yes, if you are trying to get organic traffic to the site, and its a 1 pager...it's really tough to rank high - so you should probably not make it "thin".

if on the other hand you are buying traffic to the site - and it's just 1 page, then it's not going to matter for everyone else except Google. Even with Google you can sneak a 1 pager by and get some good traffic to it with content network, but if you get manually reviewed you're likely to get slapped.

most "thin affiliate" sites are looked down upon by other high brow people in our industry...and I think that opinion sucks. there is plenty of money to be made with a 1 page site and PPC traffic, and you would be doing exactly what you are paid to do - which is pre-sell the end user and make the sale.
 
well i made my site... and i added some other pages to it as well to try and keep it from being so "thin" (articles, sitemap, index, contact) . They're links at the bottom. Search engines will see them I guess.

This is my experimental site so we'll see what happens.
 
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