Comments:
Jangro’s comment:
“There’s a rule-of-thumb I like to go by: ‘If you take the affiliate links off of your website, what’s left?’ If the answer is, ‘not much’, then your site isn’t likely to be considered worthy of ranking well in search engines (lately, this includes paid-search as well).
... is right on. When you consider the companies and their advertising campaigns and their branding efforts, there should be no surprise that this is coming about. Obviously there is pressure throughout the whole chain to make this happen.
Gary Bourgeault (thealphamarketer.com) on 05/25 at 05:02 PM