ello, I read Matt Cutts blogpost where he refered to his Interview with Eric Enge (http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/interview-matt-cutts-012510.shtml) I loved the Eric Enge interview, but would love one clarification though on a thing that “scared†me a bit (Might also be good as a few of the links we have in is now might not be regarded, and should be easy to ask the website owners to fix them) It is about the question Eric asked that went as follows: Eric Enge: “If Googlebot sees an affiliate link out there, does it treat that link as an endorsement or an ad?†And Matt say as it ought to be, that google treat it as an ad. What I wonder about is that the context before and after the question it might seem like google treat any inlinks with a ? Parameter like a ad. Does that mean that if I have a page that show up some dynamic context like http://www.example.com/?Product=test all inlinks on this format would be treated as ads? Or do google do some kind of check to see if the page is dynamic before it is treated like an ad? If they don’t, I have some redesigning to do… (Nothing much though, and I know you should generally provide static URL’s, but sometimes it is just so much easier…. ) Anyone know?
The "treated like an advertisement" does not mean Google will not look that one as a link. Confuse? The "common link" and the "affiliate link / redirect link / ads link" are being seen as links in Google perspective. But only a different type of link. One is generic link while the rest are "advertisement link". Personally, I assume Google would use this data to identify content page quality by comparing ratio between "content" and "advertisement link". If that content page has a little to no real content but full of ads link, then that page score will be diluted.
There would be millions of sites that use that kind of link structure, its illogical to use that link format as an "ad". Doesnt make sense. Some times i feel Matt doesnt tell us the inside story, he still hides alot, which is infact good for google.
Thanks for the answers, but guess I am not much wiser... It is a lot of guessing around, which I agree with Zonexx is on average good for google, but I also think it is quite dangerous to overestimate google, they still handle these things kinda basic it seem like for me. And it wouldn't be to much of an error to assume that all inlinks with an parameter is an ad, because most would be... So I hope that they do some kind of check to check if it is dynamic page or not before they flag it as an ad, but I am not sure at all. Would be great if Matt (or others) would be more spesific on issues like this that actually have something to do with how to design pages, but also understand that it is dangerous to give the spammers more information... (As they seem to be geting the upper hand at the moment, search any high PPC keywords (specially if you use more than one word), and spammers will usually dominate the first page.