Thin Affiliates

An affiliate earns money from affiliate commissions. An affiliate website exists primarily to make money. Affiliates often show content from other "real" merchant sites, such as Amazon or eBay, or a good hotel or travel website. When users click on links to buy products or make reservations, they are oftentimes redirected to the real merchant page.

A thin affiliate is a site that offers little additional information and does not offer substantial value to users compared to many other sources on the web. For example, an affiliate that has only copied content from the merchant site is considered a thin affiliate. This is a moneymaking spam technique.

Recognizing Thin Affiliates
Recognizing True Merchants
Please note the following:
Method 1 - Checking properties of an image on the page


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