Is Google a God?

Many people seem to believe that Google is a God solely responsible for their continued existence on the Net. They believe the Google God demands 100% devotion and obedience. Anything less will anger him and he will surely bring his wrath down upon you by banishing your websites into the dark and endless abyss of cyberspace, never to be found by anyone ever again. To avoid angering the Google God, net-priests who go about spreading the "Gospel" of Google say, 

"Thou shalt NOT create thin affiliate sites."

Hogwash!! Google is NOT a God and I am NOT it's slave. I create thin affiliate sites because they make me a lot of money. Using the proper automation software, I never spend more than $10.00 and 2 hours building a niche website and, more times then not, it ends up making me several hundred, or even a couple thousand dollars in affiliate commissions before Google finally gets around to bitch-slapping it into obscurity. Instead of spending countless hours trying to appease the Google God, I simply include the eventual de-indexing of my sites into my overall business plan.

Yes, make no mistake here. Google will eventually de-index a thin affiliate site. But not today. Or even next month. I typically have thin affiliate niche sites stay on the front page of Google for 6 - 12 months before they get de-indexed. In the interim, these sites are busy automatically updating themselves with fresh SEO content and making me money while I'm off doing other things. In my opinion, only a dysfunctional fool would be opposed to doing that!

What do I do with a site after Google de-index's it? Well, if it's doing good on the other SE's, I just leave it alone. Then I recreate the site using a variation of the original domain name and make it just different enough to not get a duplicate content penalty. Then I submit the new site to Google and I'm back in the game. Because I only use relative linking, the entire process usually takes me under an hour. If the site wasn't doing good on the other SE's anyway, I simply use my logs to see what keywords have been used most to find it on Google, then use the information to create a new domain name.

After using this process for the last couple of years, I have at least one of my sites for each niche on the first page of Google all the time. Critics of thin affiliate sites will often complain that I am "spamming" the Internet. My answer to them is, "I got into affiliate marketing to MAKE MONEY!, not to win a freakin' Pulitzer prize for enriching the Internet with quality content." In early July, I actually had someone use the contact link on this blog to call me a "Greedy American Capitolist" (his spelling, not mine). This kind of silly emotional outburst doesn't do a lot for this guy's intellectual credibility. Accusing an American of being capitalist is kind of like accusing Catholic's of being religious. It's not likely to insult them. My point is, ignore the self-appointed Internet morality police. They never know what they're talking about and they're always in a bad mood because they spend hours following big-corporation rules to the letter and end up making little, if any commissions.

Don't be afraid of building thin niche sites that are made up of mostly affiliate links and bring in a lot of highly-targeted prospects just because Google will eventually de-index it. Instead, plan for the eventuality of it and have another domain name ready to step-in and keep the site going. The only thing you want to be very careful of is making sure Google has no convenient way of associating ALL of your sites with each other. If they do, they may decide to de-index ALL of your niche sites at the same time! Below are a few tips to help protect your sites from this.

• DO NOT make links on your sites that link to all your other niche sites.
• DO NOT use Google Webmaster Tools or Analytics.