On Mon 08 Dec 2003 08:22:01 -0600, Robert Day wrote:
>Is it for Google to decide whether someone running an affiliate program
>should be thrown off their directory? If companies who run affiliate
>programs feel that their affiliates are in the way of their own sites,
>well - no one forced them into offering an affiliate program in the
>first place, did they? If it's a problem for them, why not stop their
>affiliate program. I have no problem in getting rid of spammers but
>lots of people are confusing the term "spammer" with the educated
>optimiser who has a relevant site and who is only interested in getting
>that relevant site in front of people searching for their services.
It is absolutely up to Google who they do or don't want to
index with whatever criteria they set as appropriate. It is
THEIR search engine after all -- isn't it?
Let the market for search results decide if Google's
algorithm modifications are a positive or negative
thing.
I, for one, have gotten real tired of wading through
list of affiliates linked as "relevant content,"
especially when many of those sites use Javascript
tricks to defeat the Google page you had opened
and strand your browser on their site.
End users may learn it is time to line up a different
method of advertising than chaining lists of affiliates.
Just my opinion.
John Gaskill
jg_at_Info-Central-USA.com
http://Info-Central-USA.com
Received on Tue Dec 09 2003 - 07:11:01 CST
