Google’s SERPs seem hellbent on making life difficult for authentic affiliate publishers.
What were once fields ripe and bountiful with conversions to harvest, have now become miles and miles of impenetrable walled gardens. And the worst part is, if you look a little closer, the walled gardens are filled with nothing but rotten fruit.
Rotten fruit, in this metaphor, means affiliate spam, which appears to be dominating product review searches right now, at the expense of genuine, curated content commerce sites.
