Affiliate Spam – Users Beware!
Affiliate Spam – Users Beware!
Today, there is a relatively new internet business called, ’affiliate marketing’, which is basically a modern practice of paying finders-fees for introducing new clients to a business through the internet. Due to there efforts, affiliate marketers will make money for each subscriber, visitor and customer given to an internet business. There are several ways to generate money in affiliate marketing, for example, they can use any of the following: Pay per Click (PPC), Pay per Lead (registrant) or by commission from sales Pay per Sale.
So, perhaps you can see why an affiliate marketer would be strongly tempted to send out emails that advertised the products he makes money on for promoting. This resulted in so much SPAM being generated that anti-spam laws were enacted. Spammers are severely fined and the newest twist in the anti-spam laws are, that the merchants with affiliates spam are being held responsible for the spamming as well. So caution is well advised to merchants.
Merchants who are considering adding an affiliate strategy to their online sales channel, should research the different technological solutions available to them. As affiliate marketing has matured, many affiliate merchants have refined their terms and conditions to prohibit affiliates from spamming. Some types of affiliate management solutions include: standalone software, hosted services, shopping carts with affiliate features, and third party affiliate networks.
Spamdexing is the practice of deliberately creating web pages, which will be indexed by search engines in order to increase the chance of a website or page being placed close to the beginning of search engine results, or to influence the category to which the page is assigned.
Right now there is a lot of debate about the affiliate practice of Spamdexing and many affiliates have converted from sending email spam to creating large volumes of automatically generated web pages, each devoted to different niche keywords as a way of using the search engine optimize their sites. This is sometimes referred to as spamming the search engine results. Spam is the biggest threat to organic Search Engines whose goal is to provide quality search results for keywords or phrases entered by their users.

