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I think I may have read about this some time ago. Because it's affect is after page 3 (result 40) I ignored it. Who searches beyond the top 20 results?
As a consumer I get very good results from Google search -- as a webmaster, if you are not page 1 Google sucks.
Google definitely does not like affiliate sites. Google thinks selling someone else's product is "evil."
Descriptive text of a sponsor's link is no added value in Google search.
The court affirmed Google's Free Speech Rights -- Commercial speech and the right to exclude content for commercial reasons. Twenty-five percent of Google's customers are searching for "adult content." Google is not discriminating against adult content -- Google is returning SERPs of adult content that people give positive algorithmic signals to. Google uses your content to sell AdWords. It's symbiotic.
Google likes tubes because people click on the results and tubes have good onsite statistics. They don't have good SEO for any other reason other than free porn and the name recognition that comes with that. You will never compete with them head on -- you can't. You have to offer some other value than FREE PORN HERE.
In the cam business we have similar problems too. People that spend little money will click where they can see free hardcore cams. People that spend money will click the top listings too. Frustrating, but that is the way it is. Find other ways than Google to get traffic -- diversify.
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