Affiliate Niche Marketing and Google

[NicheGuy]

I've dumped the links to GCI and also got rid of the image ad leading back to another similar site for just golf clubs in my sidebar and killed that site.

"Trust me its happened to me and some of them never went away despite fixing the issues."

So I should not expect to recover from my stupidity? If that's the case I may be finished. Terrific.

[NicheGuy]

Thanks for that advice - I picked up an article here discussing this issue and how to hunt the bad incoming links. I appreciate your help.

BTW - are you saying the link is on my Glass Cottage "About Page?" Not sure what I'm looking for.

[gazzerman1]

Oh no not at all, I had a few more things wrong on my sites back then, I just wanted you to be clear on what CAN happen.

Its horrible I know and like I said I have been there, but your sites are still ranking for stuff and I would have hope that you will benefit from those changes and worst case anyone looking at it manually at Google will not be able to pick holes at you for it now.

Some page rank on your sites with a few earned links will help you get back to where you want to be.

I am confident things will turn out for you if you make the right steps going forward. You have a great base.

[NicheGuy]

I just did some backlink checking and found Glass Cottage has been thoroughly scraped. How I'm getting an incoming link is beyond me, there is no link on the scraped page. He replicated the content and added a page full of ePay/ePN links. Nice, I don't see a recovery insight. He did this for nearly 1/3 the site.

[gazzerman1]

Send me a private message with the link to that site, i will take a look and see if there is anything you can do about it. Google is good at reacting to people like that.

[zoicaremus]

Hi Don,

I will send you more details in a PM. Good luck cleaning the links!

[NicheGuy]

Thank you, I look forward to seeing your information.

[zoicaremus]

I can't contact you by PM. There is some kind of error, your name does not pop up in autocomplete. Do you have "Accept Private Messages" setting enabled? I also tried on Linkedin.

[NicheGuy]

My MOZ PM is setup to accept message and notify me. I did accept you as a connection at LInkedIn.

Something is wrong with my PM, this weekend I sent a PM to Gary and never heard back so you may reach me through LinkedIn

[NicheGuy]

Since this discussion discussed problems with backlinks I want to refer to a great article and tutorial on locating unnatural links that could be damaging your site ranking and how to correct that.

Ultimate Guide to Google Penalty Removal