This week Google posted an interesting article about their so called duplicate content penalty and discussed its implications for webmasters and in particular, affiliates.

As an affiliate I have seen some pretty shocking attempts at sites over the years that definitely fall into Google’s “Cookie Cutter” description.
It is such a shame lazy affiliate’s rip of their hard working brethren, if it wasn’t the case Google would not have such a bee in its bonnet about affiliate sites but as it stands we all have to face Google’s wrath.

The great news for us hard working affiliates is that the duplicate content penalty should not interfere with our work. Since the original site will be much stronger and full of great unique content only the content stealer will be punished.

Google were also keen to emphasise that being dropped out of the SERPs because of a filter and not a penalty meaning that your whole site will not suffer even if you are mistakenly picked up for duplicate content.

Read their full post at the Google webmaster blog for more information.

Paying close attention to this blog and similar blog such as the moreniche affiliate blog will help you have a better understanding of the affiliate market and in turn lead to better sales, more traffic and more conversions.

Hey Everyone,

As you know ebay has its own affiliate program, an affiliate program is simply a way of being paid to refer people to a site to sue a service or buy a product.

For people who want to work from home affiliate programs like this are a good opportunity to make some extra money and learn some new skills at the same time.

The ebay affiliate network can be found here and is very easy to sign up and get started with.

Promoting anything online takes a small amount of web design and copywriter skills but there are plenty of free guides out there, just look through google and you will loads of sites like about.com and work.com which have free, easy to understand guides.

You can also sign up for well supported affiliate program that will supply free advice and tutorial.