Best ration between informational and affiliate content?

What's the best ratio between informational and product reviews content on affiliate site to avoid penalties?

if you asked google they'd say is 0 (google really does hate affiliate sites). Someone mentioned on the forum a few weeks ago that the traffic of his site (his site having a ratio of 25:1 I believe, but I'm not sure that I remember it correctly, it could have been 15:1) just tanked heavily and that he's never done anything black hat.

The point is that if google wants to fuck you up they will, even if you have 100% informational content, unmonetized in any way.

Anyway, I'd go with 10:1

Yeah, that's why diversification is the key.. Can't put all eggs into one site

Go for 70 Info:30 Commercial.

As long as your affiliate posts don't look fishy AF you can go 100% affiliate.

3:1, as long as the post stays relevant

The best answer I could give you is that it depends on your niche and what your competitors are doing.

A lot of people are under this mistaken assumption that SEO works in terms of fixed formulas, that if people have a certain percentage of informational and affiliate content, they're good to go.

If it only were that easy.

You have to understand that when it comes to SEO and outranking your competitors, you are dealing with moving targets.

Your competitors are constantly evolving so your mix of informational and affiliate content, as well as other content decisions, must keep what they're doing in mind.

Remember, you're trying to outrank them.

This reminds me of a story of two hunters walking across a forest and out comes this lion.

One guy stoops down to tie his shoelaces, the other hunter tells him, "You know you're not going to outrun that line."

Then the first hunter said, "I know, I just need to outrun you."

The same goes for your Google competitors.

You have to constantly pay attention to what they're doing, so sticking to some fixed ratio might hurt you.

Focus more on the state of the competition and how you can establish a ratio that they would have a tough time competing with.

blackbeans said:

The best answer I could give you is that it depends on your niche and what your competitors are doing.

A lot of people are under this mistaken assumption that SEO works in terms of fixed formulas, that if people have a certain percentage of informational and affiliate content, they're good to go.

If it only were that easy.

You have to understand that when it comes to SEO and outranking your competitors, you are dealing with moving targets.

Your competitors are constantly evolving so your mix of informational and affiliate content, as well as other content decisions, must keep what they're doing in mind.

Remember, you're trying to outrank them.

This reminds me of a story of two hunters walking across a forest and out comes this lion.

One guy stoops down to tie his shoelaces, the other hunter tells him, "You know you're not going to outrun that line."

Then the first hunter said, "I know, I just need to outrun you."

The same goes for your Google competitors.

You have to constantly pay attention to what they're doing, so sticking to some fixed ratio might hurt you.

Focus more on the state of the competition and how you can establish a ratio that they would have a tough time competing with.

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Thank you for your efforts to answer my question.

However, I am here, in this thread, more about google penalties avoiding rather than competitors outranking.

But thanks!

Majority should be informational. Especially after these recent updates, you cannot have a site with all affiliate content only.

blackbeans said:

The best answer I could give you is that it depends on your niche and what your competitors are doing.

A lot of people are under this mistaken assumption that SEO works in terms of fixed formulas, that if people have a certain percentage of informational and affiliate content, they're good to go.

If it only were that easy.

You have to understand that when it comes to SEO and outranking your competitors, you are dealing with moving targets.

Your competitors are constantly evolving so your mix of informational and affiliate content, as well as other content decisions, must keep what they're doing in mind.

Remember, you're trying to outrank them.

This reminds me of a story of two hunters walking across a forest and out comes this lion.

One guy stoops down to tie his shoelaces, the other hunter tells him, "You know you're not going to outrun that line."

Then the first hunter said, "I know, I just need to outrun you."

The same goes for your Google competitors.

You have to constantly pay attention to what they're doing, so sticking to some fixed ratio might hurt you.

Focus more on the state of the competition and how you can establish a ratio that they would have a tough time competing with.

Click to expand...

This is really the best answer!