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Other Stuff While I was laid up with my poison ivy it seems to have been a pretty “violent” week in the Internet Marketing world.
You may have heard of this but I didn’t until this weekend and I thought I’d let you know in case you hadn’t heard it.
Google “Slaps” Again
Last week, Google “slapped” again — which means they changed their computer algorithm; the set of computer instructions.
From what I can gather from my research, Google decided to seriously dis affiliate marketers; although it potentially can harm anybody so pay attention to this.
The way Google did that is they took away “points” from pages that have affiliate links on the page.
On a simple level, when Google calculates the “value” of a page, like their Quality Score, they have a set of rules in their computer program.
When they go through a page they look for matches to their rules and if they find a match to a rule they add or subtract “points” to the page’s “score”.
When they’re done they have a final score of the page.
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