You have probably heard about this issue coming up earlier this year, but Google has declared an all out war on thin affiliate sites. Whether you have a site that only has a few banners from various merchants on it or you have copied a few articles from ezine-articles to make your site look relevant to Google, you can be classified by Google as a thin affiliate site.

Google has been specific about its hatred for thin affiliate sites. While a lot of people could pull of Google cash methods with thin affiliate sites a couple of years ago, Google is now going on attack against these sites to bring the quality of advertising sites up by a notch. One thing that marketers need to understand is Google is in it to make a profit. They don’t care if you are willing to pay $20 a click to stay at the top the Google. But at the same time, they want to increase the overall quality of their services, and they know a lot of marketers are not prepared to pay that amount to show up at the top of Google. So if you are persistent enough and stupid enough to try a thin affiliate site with Google, Google will take your money in a heartbeat. But of course, if you create a valuable site that Google likes, you still give your money to Google (much less of it of course), and Google users will win as well. Tell me which approach sounds more wise to you?