Google's New Alogo Update

**giggleberries** · 28-02-11

Googles has changed its algorithms in the past week and one big change includes penalizing 'scrapper sites'

Are affiliate sites regarded as 'scrapper sites'?

**kier** · 28-02-11

Originally Posted by giggleberries

Are affiliate sites regarded as 'scrapper sites'?

What's an affiliate site? There are obviously all different kinds so the presence of affiliate links alone isn't going to determine how Google treats you.

**giggleberries** · 28-02-11

Originally Posted by kier

What's an affiliate site? There are obviously all different kinds so the presence of affiliate links alone isn't going to determine how Google treats you.

This is my thought to. Latest reports coming out of the algo changes suggests affiliate sites have been affected, but as you say, it could be sites that really are 100% scrapper sites

**aaclapham** · 28-02-11

Sites with little or no unique content will be hit. The days of buying a domain name and solely sticking a data feed on it are long gone.

**simonk** · 28-02-11

I agree. I think data feeds are probably the key. If you are simply republishing a data feed word for word with nothing else to add any value then you are a "scraper site".

**Dynamoo** · 28-02-11

Scraper sites have been an issue for years, sometimes they get knocked back a bit and then they find a way of tweaking it to get it back in.

Here's a basic question - do you scrape all your content from other sources, or is it unique? If it's unique then theoretically you should not have to worry. But if it consists purely of content from someone else's feed (i.e. the merchant) then there's a good chance that it could be penalised as a scraper.

**vanecomaccess** · 28-02-11

As long as the affiliate website has original content, it shouldn't be effected. Some affiliate websites copy content from the merchant's website that describes their products. Affiliates should write original content, and needn't worry about the duplicate links.

You can read more about this algorithm change on Matt Cutt's blog post.

**sarwarabedeen** · 04-03-11

I have been building wordpress sites pulling in posts from Amazon. These have dropped in rankings and incoming search results. However some of them with decent backlinks are not doing too bad. I'm still getting the odd sale and adsense coming in.

I have invested my time now in unique and original content. These websites are mainly information articles and monetized by adsense and affiliate links.

I am now in the process of re-writing my posts that I have pulled from Amazon. I hope this helps me.

**Garda1** · 23-03-11

The recent algo change has effected sites that have little original content and offer a poor user experience. If you have good quality content on your site and backlinks then it should be fine.

**melovemoney** · 15-04-11

I'm super happy with the recent google change in algorithm. Now people won't be submitting articles that have been respun 100 times anymore (well as much). There was so much crap in the top of the search engines this change was needed.

Now maybe people will five good content and focus more on their own sites instead of building other peoples businesses.