I need SEO advice

[Merco]

Hello,


I just joined CrocMint.com, a nice affiliate program with very good feedbacks. Can you please tell me how do you see a proper aproach? I heard that Google sometimes ban the templates from herbal affiliate programs and I don't know if this happens because of bad approach or bad seo Techniques.


Thanks.

 

[matthewferry]

Doing an affiliate program is great.. it is an seo approach why sometimes ban the site.Remember it has 2 black and white hat seo have. Also a gray seo.. there is a huge ways doing an seo so be carefull when doing it because sometime we dont even notice that we spam the site already.

Most important is you have a good content also a good seo techniques when doing an affiliate.

Hello,


I just joined CrocMint.com, a nice affiliate program with very good feedbacks. Can you please tell me how do you see a proper aproach? I heard that Google sometimes ban the templates from herbal affiliate programs and I don't know if this happens because of bad approach or bad seo Techniques.


Thanks.

 

[indivip]

Hi there Merco,

Nice to here you are also crocmint affiliate, you are the first I meet online . I have added this program to my affiliate list time ago, so far nice , great convertion rate and good support from crocmint staff.

If you are new to affiliate industry but you are familiar with webdesign. This is what I advice you:

Choose one of their templates , you will find the templates to download in your members area. Register your own domain, Then make the template unique, update the content, site content it is very important .

Then you can start promotion your template through seo if you know how, it is slow but the best choice for a long term business.

If you want to start right away , you have some funds to invest and you are familiar with PPC , you can start doing PPC and you will start getting sales right away. Crocmint.com products have a very good conversion rate,

I hope this help

 

[Merco]

Hello,


Thanks a lot for your help. From what I understood those templates are safe and I am not in danger to be banned. I am asking because I heard many stories about different affiliate programs which had their templates banned because the aff used duplicate content in a massive way.


Any ideas if it is a good strategy to build 5-6 websites and link one to each other? I know it is a lil tricky, but when the number of websites are low ( 5-6 ) I believe it is not a very bad idea, isn't it?


Thanks again.

 

[djbaxter]

I am asking because I heard many stories about different affiliate programs which had their templates banned because the aff used duplicate content in a massive way.

Duplicate content doesn't get anybody "banned" per se. The so-called "duplicate content penalty" isn't really a penalty at all. What happens is that when the SE "sees" two identical pages, they will index one of them (usually though not always the oldest version) and may de-index the copies (even that doesn't happen in all cases).

Any ideas if it is a good strategy to build 5-6 websites and link one to each other? I know it is a lil tricky, but when the number of websites are low ( 5-6 ) I believe it is not a very bad idea, isn't it?

No, it's not a bad idea if it's not overdone. Remember that links to your other sites are also helpful for human visitors. Follow Google's advice to build sites and pages based on what's helpful for human visitors rather than spiders and it's unlikely that you'll go far wrong.

 

[indivip]

Hi Merco,

Yes the templates are safe, I have already created 3 sites with crocmint templates and no issues at all. I do take the time to modify and change all template content .

Hello,


Thanks a lot for your help. From what I understood those templates are safe and I am not in danger to be banned. I am asking because I heard many stories about different affiliate programs which had their templates banned because the aff used duplicate content in a massive way.


Any ideas if it is a good strategy to build 5-6 websites and link one to each other? I know it is a lil tricky, but when the number of websites are low ( 5-6 ) I believe it is not a very bad idea, isn't it?


Thanks again.

 

[Merco]

Thanks a lot for your useful advices. I am happy to hear that there is a herbal pills program which doesn't have the templates banned.

@minstrel: Well, it depends. I worked with a herbal affiliates program and because many affiliates used the templates without changing the content, all the websites which used those templates were banned. Sometimes Google really strikes.


@indivip: Thanks a lot for that info. I guess I will send all my traffic to Crocmint.com even if it is little now.

 

[djbaxter]

@minstrel: Well, it depends. I worked with a herbal affiliates program and because many affiliates used the templates without changing the content, all the websites which used those templates were banned. Sometimes Google really strikes.

On what exactly did you base your conclusion that they were banned?

 

[Merco]

Before joining Crocmint.com, I was an affiliate with some success at genbucks. All the websites which used their templates were banned, no exception. That is why I need to know how good is Crocmint before building websites to promote their products. Thanks to indivip now I will push all my health websites to Crocmint without fear


Don't missunderstood my point, I am not telling that you told me false things

 

[bobwilson37]

Yeah, it a very healthy discussion..Nice one i got some decent knowledge because of you..Thanks for sharing..

 

[djbaxter]

Before joining Crocmint.com, I was an affiliate with some success at genbucks. All the websites which used their templates were banned, no exception. That is why I need to know how good is Crocmint before building websites to promote their products. Thanks to indivip now I will push all my health websites to Crocmint without fear

Don't missunderstood my point, I am not telling that you told me false things

I'm still asking how you "knew" they were banned... often when people believe they have been "banned" by Google, in reality they're not banned at all.

 

[Merco]

All the websites which used those templates just dissapear. All websites including very good ranked websites. When thousands of webistes which use the same template disappear, how should I name it if not ban?

 

[djbaxter]

1. When you say "disappear", do you mean a search for the domain name for the site yields no (zero) results? Or is it just that you cannot find it within the first 100 or so results? Do any pages at all show up if you use the site: query in Google?

2. Are ANY of the sites using that template still listed? If so, you're not dealing with banning but with duplicate content filters. This may seem like a trivial distinction but it isn't at all in terms of how to correct the problem for the site owner.

 

[Merco]

When I saw dissapear , I mean deindexed completely. All the websites which used those templates.

 

[lexiseek]

How are you looking to promote the website? Are you paying for PPC or anything like that?

 

[djbaxter]

When I saw dissapear , I mean deindexed completely. All the websites which used those templates.

So they don't appear even when you search for the domain, e.g., website.com?

And above you implied that most of the sites "disappeared"... is it "most" or "all" of the sites using that template?

 

[Merco]

@lexiseek: Mostly SEo, but I do try PPC from time to time. Send me a private message for more details.


@ minstrel: ALL the websites which used those templates dissappear. No results even if they searched website.com. As I told you, it was a special case, where the word "ban" was used in a proper way

 

[djbaxter]

@ minstrel: ALL the websites which used those templates dissappear. No results even if they searched website.com. As I told you, it was a special case, where the word "ban" was used in a proper way

That seems highly unusual. It makes me think that there must have been some other reason beyond duplicate content to cause this.

 

[Rob_TID]

Genbucks has a product called "Express Herbal" which is a ***** enlargement pill.

It is a dangerous product.

Genbucks also got in trouble for email spamming.

This is the pure definition of a "bad neighbourhood"

There were many more factors in play than simply duplicate content.

And it's one of the many reasons I don't do porn, pills or gambling.

Many of my early attempts at sites were duplicate content. They were treated as duplicate content, but are still not banned. Minstrel is correct about that.

 

[djbaxter]

Thanks, Rob. I was virtually certain it was a lot more than a duplicate content issue. Google doesn't ban for duplicate content.