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The saga continues.

GOOGLE-tang is here forever.

98% of you won’t get that reference, but that’s okay (remember, rap music is my drug of choice).  In layman’s terms, Google’s mission to reward high quality sites – and slap lower quality sites that have worked hard to manipulate their rankings – is on like Donkey Kong, now more than ever.

While some SEO experts saw the recent de-indexing of blog networks as nothing more than a scare tactic, I think everyone is starting to see the light now.  Google continues to clean house and there’s no reason to think that this trend won’t continue. 

But if you haven’t gotten hit yet, should you panic?  And what’s the future of affiliate marketing in the post-Panda era?

The way I see it, there are 3 basic categories your affiliate marketing websites could fall into that’d place you in the danger zone:

1) A thin, crappy little affiliate site with piss-poor content that only exists as a means for you to siphon buyer traffic and get easy commissions… but that you haven’t went out of your way to link build to…

2) Everything I said above, plus overly aggressive link building that utilized spammy, unnatural methods like blog networks, automated software, paid links, etc…

3) Or, maybe you were one of the few super affiliate marketers who realized the importance of top notch content that’s written to provide extreme value to your visitors… BUT you combined this with suspect linking methods to help rank faster…

If your blogs fall into either of the first two categories, you’re screwed.  More than likely, if they haven’t tanked yet, consider ‘em to be on life support.

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