My datafeed powered affiliate websites die after 3 weeks
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Ok, so I've been trying something new lately:
There are tons of datafeeds from webshops available on all the major affiliate networks. We thought it might be a nice idea to implement these datafeeds into your own little 'whitelabel' webshop with the power of Wordpress and a couple of plugins that help automate this process.
So what we've did is this:
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Get a domain that is relative to the shop or products we're promoting.
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Install Wordpress with a plugin that enables you to import the datafeed for those products from 1 or more webshops on the affiliate networks.
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Each product gets an unique text by an article spinner of about a thousand words. The text on each product page is about 85% different than the others because of a massive synonym list. But each text makes perfect sense and is perfectly readable by humans.
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We let the system add about 20-30 pages per day so we're not flooding Google with hundreds or thousands of new pages per day because that would lead to a direct penalty.
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The sites look good, unique and look not much different than your average comparison site. They also have privacy policy's, contact information, newsletter subscription, sitemap, about us and all that stuff.
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We have masked the affiliate links because I know a lot of affiliate links might ring the alarm at Google.
So overall these sites are pretty solid and look good (enough). But here is the problem: We have tried 5 of those sites so far and every time the same thing happens: the site gets indexed, gets some visitors, then quickly builds to about 20-30 visitors a day in 2-4 weeks and then BAM, it's over. Google drops the bomb on us.
The sites do not get banned from the index, but they just drop a couple of hundred positions to where they don't get any traffic at all anymore. Every single time this has happened and only in 1 occasion the site "rose from the death" and came back again, but we do not know for how long this will last.
So, do you have any idea what the cause of this might be? There is only one thing left I can think of and that's the age of the domain. They were all newly registered, but still, it's weird that they do work for a while and then get dropped.
2 examples of my sites are: http://www.veromodashoponline.nl and http://www.converseonline.nl (sites are in Dutch). Please help!
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Hi Guillaume.
I would like to help you and I feel the best way to do so is really clarify what you are asking. I have read your Q&A and looked at your site. Here is how your question reads to me:
"We are trying to create a bunch of websites, then manipulate search engine results so our sites rank well. We have taken many steps to fool the search engines, but they seem to keep catching us in a matter of weeks. How can we fool the search engines?"
You may disagree with that summary, but you will be hard pressed to convince me, or more importantly the search engines of anything different.
The best practice is to create a single, well designed site. All the text should be manually written word by word. A human needs to write all of the text.
Pretend for a moment you only have one website. Pour your heart and soul into that website. Build it to be the best website on the planet for your product or service. The website will then become "real" both to search engines and your customers. Search engines have billions of dollars invested in search quality. Even if you do manage to fool them, it is only a matter of time until they figure out any manipulation and penalize your site.
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