The Forums Dominating 10,000 Product Review Search Results
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In an analysis of 10,000 keyphrases where product reviews rank highly, Google's increasingly prominent 'Discussions and forums' SERP feature was present
  • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Of the resulting 122 URLs, 63 have a top comment with a self-promotional affiliate link. Often written months after the original thread was created.

    Injecting (posting and manipulating) affiliate links is lucrative for affiliates - Reddit could resolve it by disallowing or automatically clearing affiliate links of links (URL shorteners would be a secondary concern that could be automatically handled too)

    Without affiliate spam, it would or could still be lucrative for sellers and product sellers. Which is harder to resolve.