Do affiliate links on informative blog posts affect the overall ratio?

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Didou

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Hello everyone

Let's say you've embedded an Amazon Affiliate link or banner into an informative blog post. Will this blog post become a money page, or will it remain an informative article in Google's eyes? And is it going to affect the overall ratio of informative to commercial posts on the blog?


Thanks in advance, and I wish you all a great day :)
 
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Okay google will not consider it as a money page if you add affiliate link in the information page. But keep in mind not to over optimize it. Using it once or twice in per thousand words is natural. Thanks
 
Do not add so many links in small article. Main purpose is to give information.
 
Thank you for the information. I really appreciate it.
 
Didou said:
Hello everyone

Let's say you've embedded an Amazon Affiliate link or banner into an informative blog post. :)
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If you have just one, as in ' an' then it's fine.

It's when people add 20 links in one post, it's a spammy mess.

Just make it look natural and ideally link from your informational page to your top 5 breadmakers or Tefal xyz product review page instead.
 
MisterF said:
If you have just one, as in ' an' then it's fine.

It's when people add 20 links in one post, it's a spammy mess.

Just make it look natural and ideally link from your informational page to your top 5 breadmakers or Tefal xyz product review page instead.
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I was thinking of adding 2 or 3 Amazon banner ads across all my informational blog posts. Do you think it's a good move? Or is it going to hurt my site?
PS: currently I don't use any display ads.
 
Didou said:
I was thinking of adding 2 or 3 Amazon banner ads across all my informational blog posts. Do you think it's a good move? Or is it going to hurt my site?
PS: currently I don't use any display ads.
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I know that your question was addressed to someone else, but I see that nobody had replied yet, so I'd like to give my (unwanted) opinion until the addresser responds. So...

3 banners is excessive for sure if the content is short (let's say 500-600 words). If it's long content (2k or more) 3 banners would normally be OK, but I say normally because google hates affiliates with more passion than I hate google, so as soon as they detect more than 1 affiliate link per page they get triggered and could penalize your site (soft penalties like lower rankings, less traffic etc, but you'll still feel the penalty).

So, the moral of the story is: keep 1 affiliate link per page until your site gets big enough to afford breaking google's rules and slam more than 1 affiliate link on the same page.

EDIT: also, do not put affiliate links on all pages lol. That's a recipe for disaster. Try 1 affiliate link every 10-15 content pages. I know that it sucks but better get less traffic and sales than no traffic and sales
 
tazarbm said:
I know that your question was addressed to someone else, but I see that nobody had replied yet, so I'd like to give my (unwanted) opinion until the addresser responds. So...

3 banners is excessive for sure if the content is short (let's say 500-600 words). If it's long content (2k or more) 3 banners would normally be OK, but I say normally because google hates affiliates with more passion than I hate google, so as soon as they detect more than 1 affiliate link per page they get triggered and could penalize your site (soft penalties like lower rankings, less traffic etc, but you'll still feel the penalty).

So, the moral of the story is: keep 1 affiliate link per page until your site gets big enough to afford breaking google's rules and slam more than 1 affiliate link on the same page.

EDIT: also, do not put affiliate links on all pages lol. That's a recipe for disaster. Try 1 affiliate link every 10-15 content pages. I know that it sucks but better get less traffic and sales than no traffic and sales
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Oh, I see. Thank you very much.

Right now, I've implemented the Amazon Native Ads (Recommendation ads) in all my informational blog posts. Do you think I should only insert it on the 5 top pages?

Also, what's the difference between Amazon Native Ads & Ezoic or Google Adsense?
 
Didou said:
Do you think I should only insert it on the 5 top pages?
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I don't know what you classify as "top 5 pages", but what I would do is create 5-10 purely commercial pages (product review pages for example), and all information posts would have a link to the review page that's related the most to the content of the information page where the link comes from. So, I'd keep informational pages separate from commercial ones. I think that's the best way to go about it.

I don't know what ANA are, I've stopped caring about Amazon around 2015, and I don't remember to have seen these ads back then.

Didou said:
Also, what's the difference between Amazon Native Ads & Ezoic or Google Adsense?
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no idea. All I know is that Amazon sells physical products and Adsense is revenue per click. I never used Ezoic
 
Check news sites, they have 5-8 ads below their post content and never saw one Google punishment. Some are sponsored content, some are affiliate ads.
 
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