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It goes the same for Forbes.
I saw this page on Google News. (150-word comment on a 12 month old video, there's your fresh, unique content!). Just look at the page, it has at least 4 adsense units on the same page, not to mention other ad units. It also has this floating ad on the right sidebar.
Look at the image attached. See how it ranks with 150 words and a 1 year old video? Unique content, page quality, Adsense TOS bla bla bla...
4 months since I posted this and look at the situation right now. It's even worse. Basically they have done completely the opposite of what they promised.
I am not surprised at all.
No it doesn't matter. If it's an Exact Match, Search Engines still see it as one, with or without the dash.
Well this isn't a technical question now, is it? 
Interesting. I am not a lawyer but it looks like it even applies to those who are not located in the U.S. but doing business with any American company.
Apparently, we are now supposed to disclose it. It doesn't say anything about disclosing a code tho. (Maybe) You could just add this to your Site Terms and inform the visitor that you have affiliate links on the site.
Edit: I just noticed that article is quite old. How did we never hear anything about this?
You can use a redirect script to hide that code but when they click on the link, they will most likely see it in address bar. It still helps.
You will basically create something like domainx.com/link and it will redirect to your actual affiliate link.
Either learn how to redirect manually using .htaccess or google "redirection script".
don't use meta refresh. Use a 301 redirect. Google 301 and htaccess. If you're using a CMS, there are plugins for that.
I am 100% sure Google doesn't like a page with more than one or two affiliate links. I had a similar problem about 3 months ago and A/B testing twice clearly showed:
Links from 10 to 3 : Better ranking.
Links from 3 to 2: Even better ranking.
It doesn't matter at all if you nofollow them or use unmasked or 301 redirects, they just detect all sorts of aff. links.
Thanks. I have actually been adding 301 redirects but didn't want to be spending too much time on it. Some of the links were not even linked. They were just text and Google still treated them as links.
Thanks. I've got canonical. So I guess I don't have to do anything.
Hi,
In a regular check with Webmaster Tools, I have noticed a sudden increase in the number of "not found-404" errors. So I have been looking at them and noticed something weird has been going on.
There are well over 100 pages with 404-errors. The funny thing is, none of the ULR's are correct, For example, if the actual url is something like www.domain.com/latest-reviews , the 404-error points to a non-existent URL like www.domain.com/latest-re And when I checked where they were linked from, they are all from these spammy sites.
Anyone know what could be causing these links, why would anyone link on purpose to a non-existent page?
cheers,
I would get rid of the Google Adsense links right under your main menu bar. Why do you want to send your visitors to another site as soon as they visit your site? It will decrease your pageviews, pageviews/user, and will increase your bounce-rate.
And you'd better convert your content url's to clean url format.
For instance your forum links is now: index.php?option=com_easydiscuss&view=index&category_id=0&Itemid=78
a forum URL like /automobile-forum would work better for you.
I agree with Ryan, you shouldn't use that or any other software that looks too good to be true but I won't agree with the "earn links, don't build them"... Not anymore.
I have done that for years and I am now fed up with it. Earned links come in ages and ages. You will end up frustrated if you wait for back-links to come naturally. Meanwhile, your competitors will have built hundreds of back-links and you'll be out of the competition.
If all the top ranking sites were EARNING LINKS and not BUILDING them, I would have agreed with Ryan but that's not the case. Open Site Explorer clearly shows that. Pick any keyword and most of the time, you'll see that top ranking sites have not really earned those back-links but built them.
When Google and other search engines get better and can tell which backlink has actually been earned and which one has been built, I can agree with Ryan. Today, they only TALK about it.
rant over...
Thanks Ruth. I didn't know about the customization of reports. I take back that comment in that case
Fair enough but in my opinion the problem is that SEOMOZ is putting too much importance on the On-page optimization tool and on page report card by sending out weekly on-page reports.
If "LINK BUILDING and PA" is more important, then why don't you include them in weekly crawl report emails instead of the less important "ON PAGE REPORT"?
