That means not stealing our content and putting it on your site in an Iframe!! I don't know if this is the cause or not for my recent demise in Google rankings, but it looks like it's playing a factor. So to all the affiliates out there... you wouldn't be making ANY money without your publisher so give them a little respect! Publishers are welcome to comment about how you combat this situation because I'm getting very fed up with this.
well first of all you should be thank full that affiliates are promoting your product and maybe you may like this. tool http://www.clickbank.com/publisher_tools.html#Publisher_Tools_13 . and another thing im sure many publishers dont mind what your describing, so you wouldnt be the only publisher for your affiliates.
It's a matter of ethics mohammedd. Are you a publisher yourself? Thanks for the code, but I already rigged up a nice PHP script which displays a lovely little message for content thieves.
I would have thought that the affiliates would not benefit from stealing the content as the publisher had it on their site first, and google will know that? But I guess some people will try everything and anything. I guess all you can really do is do what you already did, make a script to deal with it. It does seem like it would be highly irritating though.
I *think* our site got hit with a -50 penalty because we're now ranked #52. 50% of my sales came from being #1 on Google and now... well I don't know.
If I was a publisher I would want them to steal my content and reword it as their own( IN FACT MANY PUBLISHERS PROMOTE THIS!). As long as they are selling my product, hell they can say that they are the author IDC.
It wouldn't bother me if they reword it as their own, but just putting an iframe up with my pitch page really screws me with google, and since 50% of sales are mine that hurts big time.
right it probably will affect you in some way with google. But this is a sacrafice that a lot of publishers make. A publisher has to make it so the affiliate is the boss. The publisher works for the affiliates.
I agree with eroker. The publisher only makes more money when affiliates try to do everything to promote the product. Publishers have to say a HUGE thank you to affiliates, because I believe that more than 50% of sales comes from affiliates.
OK here 's my opinion on this as an affiliate . First of all let me start by saying that in one point Eroker is right when he mentioned that "A publisher has to make it so the affiliate is the boss. The publisher works for the affiliates. " But my friend you also have to realize that we can not have one without the other . Publishers need affiliates and affiliates need them too . So sometimes we affiliates have to respect certain rules that Publishers want us to respect . If a publisher find one of your campaign and don't like the way you are promoting his product and ask you to make a few changes in your method . I think you should agree to that . Some of view might say why should I do that ? I am giving him money . My friends , there is one simple answer for that . Respect . When you do that you will show respect to the publisher and he will show respect back to you. Your reputation will grow up and people will respect your name . Internet is really big and with internet we have the opportunity to make money but sometimes we also need to be very careful with that tool . You never know where life is taking you , maybe in the future you might become a publisher and start having the same problems with affiliates . Personally I do use some content from Publishers site but when they ask me to make some changes from my campaign . I change it right away .I am not scare of them I just don't want people to go over forum and forum and start giving me bad reputation . Respect people and people will respect you . Respect publishers and publishers will respect you back Cheers Mega
+repped. Though it does work both ways, publishers don't really 'need' aff's, they just know that aff's can explode their business, so the smart ones open up to it I think the little quirks like this are worth it (hey at least you got replaced with your own site not a competitors, got more backlinks etc). I do feel for ya though, perhaps it's time to tweak your page again to regain ranking (go get some high pr backlinks). NC.
andrew1056, you are ignorant of how the internet works. Before shooting off, learn the basics! 1. basic SEO, you wont loose your ranking if someone put your site in an iframe. At worst, it wont have any effect on your SERPS, at best it might help you. This is not duplicate content, the content is always in your website! 2. The reason why affiliates put your site in iframe is not for your great content. I am not telling you the reason, find it yourself!
have to agree with eroker and alemcherry, and I personally think alem was being nice about it. GTFO Vene
would you have a problem if an affiliate did this but didnt knock your ranking down and actually gave you another $100/day? I think your mainly upset that your rankings have dropped. oh yes.. I framing isnt duping content... Highlighting all of the content on your site and copy/paste onto their own is. I personally dont have a problem with it. Affiliate marketing is cut throat- keywords, ads, landing pages get copied all the time and affiliates have to put up with this every day.
+ repped very very good response, Mega. Everyone needs to remember to treat people the way you want to be treated. Period!
Can you explain what a -50 penalty is? What do you have to do wrong to incurred the wrath of the google gods?
I'm not sure why this is a problem. iframes are just iframes, not duplicate content. Ahh, from what I get from above, did you put in some sort of hotlinker page for people that iframe? That's about the stupidest thing I ever heard. Pop out the frame, but don't throw away perfectly good sales because you have online website ego issues.