Google is tightening the quality control reigns again and this new algo comes just in time for the Christmas shopping rush. Affiliate landing pages that offer no added value and only include an affiliate link will be hit harder than ever it seems. Over at WebmasterWorld people seem pretty happy and hope this will clean up some of the MFA sites that still clutter up the network. Over at the UK affiliate forum, affiliates seem to have more detailed insider info and are very worried. Christmas Present from Google Adwords. Scott Jangro over at Revenews has an in-depth story including some good advice and several steps affiliates can take to ensure they don’t lose Holiday revenue.

Another Adwords Quality Score Update – ReveNews – Scott Jangro
“Google has become increasingly concerned with user experience, and now consider any affiliate pages with the sole purpose of driving traffic to a merchant as low quality. There have been at least two updates this year (one in April and another in July) that sent many affiliate marketers back to the drawing boards (or worse) to recover the lost traffic and revenues.

Yesterday, Google announced via their Inside Adwords blog that there is another update coming in the next few days. Not only have they updated the algorithm, but these quality scores will now affect what shows in their content network (Adsense).”

Read the rest and take advantage of Scott’s insight and tips here.
For the dicey version of the discussion about the issue, see ThreadWatch “Google Web Police.”

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