Google Issues Stern Warning to Affiliate Sites

[faxxaff]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

My Answer: I know I'm not alone around here when I say that I hope Google goes back to liking our Link Lists & Free Sites, because I think most of them do fall into the class of sites/pages that "provide significant added benefits that would make a user want to visit this site in search results instead of the original source of the content" due to the unique descriptions that are used in the reviews (for LL's) and marketing (for FS's).

I think the original article from Google was about thin affiliate content in general and tubes were just one example. It impacts free sites, galleries, sblogs in the same way. In general terms Google raised the bar for content to advertising ratio. In the old days we had to write 10 to 50 words of text for an outbound link. These days we need much more content to compensate for posting links.