The good the bad and the ugly
Maybe it's only me, but recently I've noticed a lot more affiliate sites popping up in SE's. And while this may seem like a good thing especially for the affiliate sites, I find myself hitting the back button more and more to get back to the SE. The problem I see, is that there has been an explosion of affiliate sites out there and for every 1 decent site created there are 20 more that are horrifying; pages of banners and some of the spammiest content created. It's a wonder some of them are even indexed at all.
Remember back when there was only a couple of sites using pop-ups and they weren't that annoying and now they're everywhere. Well for me it's kinda like that with the affiliate sites.
The sad thing is that the bad and ugly sites are giving the entire affiliate marketing industry a bad wrap. I don't think anyone can do anything about it now since Pandoras box has been opened.
I wouldn't be surprised if SE's start filtering out affiliate sites, although i'm not sure how they could determine what is an affiliate site. Anyone else have thoughts on this.
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