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Originally Posted by adultrock
"Our quality guidelines warn against running a site with thin or scraped content without adding substantial added value to the user. Recently, we?ve seen this behavior on many video sites, particularly in the adult industry, but also elsewhere. These sites display content provided by an affiliate program?the same content that is available across hundreds or even thousands of other sites.
If your site syndicates content that?s available elsewhere, a good question to ask is: ?Does this site 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?? If the answer is ?No,? the site may frustrate searchers and violate our quality guidelines. As with any violation of our quality guidelines, we may take action, including removal from our index, in order to maintain the quality of our users? search results. If you have any questions about our guidelines, you can ask them in our Webmaster Help Forum.
Posted by Chris Nelson, Search Quality Team"
I can't post the link, but I will do it like this
googlewebmastercentral. blogspot. co. uk/2014/01/affiliate-programs-and-added-value.html
Guys, what do you think about this?
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It's been that way for a while. I don't think any of the inbound links you have as being a program owner are of any value because they are all encrypted or go to .secure or .join, so they are really direct links, but the fact that you are the source of the content and not someone just promoting it makes perfect sense. Just the same as if you were an Amazon affiliate promoting something at Amazon, of course Amazon is going to come up higher in the results.