Beware of Affiliate Spamming!

Beware of Affiliate Spamming!

The modern variation of the practice of paying finder’s-fees for the introduction of new clients to a business, is a popular method of promoting Internet businesses called, ’affiliate marketing’. 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. SPAM was the result from this, contributing to the deciding factor to the anti-spam laws passed to help prevent it. There is a strict fine to spammers and in addition to this, there is now a penalty for any merchant that is associated with spammers, making them accountable too. Now, merchants need to be very careful because of this.

Any merchant that is thinking about including an affiliate strategy to their online sales, would be wise to research the different software programs available to use that will help prevent spamming. 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. Another term for this is sometimes called, 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.