Google’s John Mueller answers a question about affiliate links and whether it’s beneficial to hide them from search engines. This is discussed in the latest installment of the Ask Googlebot series on ...

Google says there's no harm in having a lot of affiliate links on a page if the main content adds value to the web. Google’s John Mueller says the number of affiliate links on one page is irrelevant ...

Media companies could soon become collateral damage in Google’s escalating shopping war with Amazon. A recent report from the Information (paywalled) writes about Google’s ambitious shopping efforts.

Google's John Mueller was asked about the pros and cons of cloaking affiliate links. John responded on Twitter saying, "I don't think you gain anything by cloaking the affiliate links, it just adds ...

On 13 November 2025, the European Commission formally launched an investigation into Google’s search practices.

Last October, Google revamped its Google Webmaster Guidelines into Google Search Essentials and one part of that was to consolidate the previous pages on thin content and affiliate programs into the ...

Google Chrome has made a policy update today that restricts how browser extensions can interact with affiliate codes, effectively banning the behavior of the controversial PayPal Honey extension. On ...

HouseFresh, a small, independent product review website that called out Google after being consistently outranked by larger publishers – has lost 91% of its Google traffic following the March 2024 ...

Affiliate marketers can use Google Analytics to do the following – Google Event Tracking to monitor on-site engagements, Google Dashboards for analyzing user behavior, and build custom Audiences for ...