Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'affiliates'

There is a featured WebmasterWorld thread on the topic of how Google treats affiliate links and if there are ways to hide your affiliate links from Google. There is discussion that Google will lower your rank of a web page,...

Posted on September 16, 2009 8:28 AM

A detailed Google Webmasters Help thread has discussion around how Google perceives affiliates and how they need to go above and beyond to warrant ranking well in the Google search results. Googler, JohnMu, answers one affiliate, as to why he...

Posted on April 14, 2009 8:24 AM

You don't hear the word "penalty" come up much when you are talking about Google's AdWords program. I hear it all the time with Google's web search algorithm, but rarely when it comes to Google's AdWords quality score algorithm. In...

Posted on January 6, 2009 8:14 AM

A Webmaster World thread speculates whether Adsense will become an obsolete business model with the introduction of Pay Per Action ads. Some members think that it will remain the same: The reason CPA won't replace CPC is simply because most...

Posted on March 22, 2007 9:04 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread has a post from Stefan Juhl who spotted that Google was now paying him $5 per AdSense referral and $5 per AdWords referral. When the AdSense/AdWords referral program launched, you would get paid $5 per AdSense...

Posted on February 2, 2007 7:32 AM

Marcia at a WebmasterWorld thread writes that Google Checkout is "washing affiliate links/tracking and not tracking those that are tracked with cookies, so that affiliates won't get paid for sales made by customers they send to merchants using Google Checkout."...

Posted on December 7, 2006 8:32 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread explains that if you have two sites advertising for the same keywords and one is an affiliate for the other, they won't show the ad of both sites when the domain is the same, but the TLDs...

Posted on October 31, 2006 8:10 AM