Google : When is an affiliate ...an affliate

[sebastian]

I am very confused about Google's affliate rules.

I have a plethora of examples where companies are dominating the adwrods results by creating separate URLs and then "feeding" identical affiliate content into frames, iframes and/or javascript server calls.

If Company ABC decides to offer it's "inventory" database to Company XYZ, thus showing the exact same content - isn't that an affliate deal that has the potential to dominate adwords?

We are seeing it now in our industry where a large company will share duplicate inventory content with a smaller company creating an affliate situation. then, the larger company will also share the marketing costs thus getting their inventory content duplicated in adwords. since the affliate is selling the larger company's goods, they circumvent the affliate policy at google.

It has gotten so bad, that a mjority of the results in ad words for certain searches are all the same content.

So - google - anyone - when is an affiliate an affliate because this page:
https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=14844&ctx=en:search&query=affiliate&topic=0&type=f

is useless....

thanks.

[AussieWebmaster]

Unfortunately the only rules that seem to apply right now are they have to land at different domains... nothing has been set up for duplicate content on other domains... eventually they will thin the field a little but the first attempt was designed to at least stop the sites going to the same landing page... guess they didn't think everyone would just move the domains to have the same content page... keep at it and they will make that the next change.

[5starAffiliatePrograms]

NOTE: I split this thread. A new post titled “repeating keywords in meta tags” was off topic and was moved to:
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=6434