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Affiliates or… ?

September 26th, 2005 Posted in general

I talked with another dev and he was very pissed by yet another affiliate using the infamous “steal google queries” tecnique :) What is that? easy, you search for the best keywords for a game and make a webpage with the game affiliated, using all the best SEO systems.
So for example for a search like “YOURGAMENAME DOWNLOAD” instead of your site you would see www.competitorsite.com selling your game with affiliation.
We both agreed (me and my friend) that this system isn’t very polite and is more like to stealing money :) An affiliate should really bring MORE visitors to your site, not stealing the visitors FROM your website to get affiliation credit…! LOL

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