I made a post a little whiles back at Poker Affiliate Listings about how much Google sucks. Aaron Walls just posted over at SEO Book about Google’s policies and how they are penalizing affiliates and categorizing them as spammers. I’m happy to be posting again on poker affiliate forums but it’s amazing to what lengths affiliates will go to to acquiesce to Google and other monopolies like Caesars. In fact, most people would be afraid to post something like this in fear Google will sandbox them. To tell you the truth, I don’t care anymore! Google is just part of the fascists that have ruined this great country of ours. If you have done 1000’s of hours researching corporations and government like I have, you would come to realization that Google and Facebook are part of the NSA. Facebook and Google are intelligence gathering tools for the NSA. Google circles is a mechanism that enables google users to collate their friends into “circles” because the AI cannot do it for itself yet. I have sold domains to government contractors who were buying for Facebook but I knew this way before that. So what now? Should I not use Google and switch to Bing? Apple, Microsoft, Google are all working together via cross-board directors. The only solution would be for webmasters to do some sort of “occupy” movement, or in this case a boycott of all the major engines and Facebook. I also made a post like this a while back on Poker Affiliate Programs. Few people listen to me if ever and the others, well I guess I’m preaching to the choir. I’m not putting down anyone that adapts to this tyranny, I’m just saying they make my life harder. It’s a survival instinct and people have to feed their families. I’m just saying that if we ALL worked together on some sort of poker affiliate search engine or something, we could put a small dent (pin hole maybe) in Google. Maybe it wouldn’t do anything on its’ own but maybe other niches would follow?

Take a look at Aaron Wall’s post on SEO Book on Google screwing affiliates. He posts interesting points in the comments too:

..about that type of discrimination (outside of Google itself being an affiliate in many of the markets it polices) is that the whole theory on why they needed to do the Panda update & make things “algorithmic” was because sites like eHow or Mahalo (and Mahalo was nothing more than a glorified scraper website) were in the gray area & were (allegedly) not totally spam, so they couldn’t just discriminate against them. They had to do this big elaborate update that came with thousands of false positives & tons of collateral damage so that things were “algorithmic.”
Yet they train that same algorithm to discriminate against competing business models based on no factor outside of the actual business model.
If you create a great site but it is monetized with affiliates you may be labeled as spam no matter what.
If you create a crappy content farm it takes them years to address the issue & even then when they do so it has to be a partial hit rather than the complete torch job affiliates could expect.