Affiliate marketing is the best way to learn lot of money through online business and it really helps in establishing business as a whole. Because it is the way which makes the webmasters hard cash too fast and too early and as yet another fast moving vehicle it also has high chances of denting your online image and search engine ranking. How Affiliate links may act as a hurting factor in your website is the thing we are going to answer in this article. So you have to be really very aggressive as well as a defensive in playing with your affiliate marketing tools. In this article we will look at the ways to be sure that you are not marked by Google Search Engine as a thin affiliate marketing site. And it could result in a penalty if your site is marked as a affiliate site, because Google discourages plain affiliate sites as it hampers interest of the readers.
Now Quickly moving to the ways you can avoid being penalized for affiliate links:-
1. Keep affiliate links to a minimal number possible.
2. Affiliate links should not appear above the fold.
3. Affiliate review posts must be clearly indicated as advertorials else your website will be penalized.
4. Affiliate Links should be clearly indicative else if you keep the links hidden making people to click on it, will result in Google cloaking penalty.
5. Affiliate Links being made to hidden behind your own website link making readers be redirected to your website and then to the affiliate link. This redirection is also penalized by all means by Google.
6. Affiliate Links should never be linked inside the post until and unless the article is marked as advertorial.
Read: 7 Do’s and Don’ts of Affiliate Marketing
More and manymore things could be sited which we all know is not good for the website but we give it a try for the risk that may be Google some day miss out our site. But this never happens and we regret post that for ever. So better not to regret and always present a ideologically right and good presentation of affiliate links by this you are actually doing good for yourself and the marketers. Now moving on to the next topic which we will see ahead in this super series, we are going to look at HTML Errors/WC3 Validation. This became important once Google highlighted those websites which have a cleaner code and cleared site design. Which is indicative of quality stuff, and these errors happens only because the codes gets corrupt due to you playing up with the code. Or some junk code inserted by the theme you have newly installed. So we will discuss how to get this issue fixed and to avoid the Google penalty due to this meager issue. Also we will look at potential other threats that may cause this issue of code corruption or HTML errors to your website and the resources which can equip to make you fix such things up by yourself. If you liked the idea of this post and want to share it with others just press the social icons or else you can also connect with me on Twitter and Facebook to discuss interesting new other topics of your interest.
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