My name is Brandon and I'm the host of the blogging millionaire.

Before we get into this week's episode, let me ask you two quick questions.

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to rank IQ.com to get started today. Welcome to the blogging podcast, where we teach you the latest traffic building

and income boosting growth hacks to take your blog to the next level. And now here's your host

who gets five million monthly visitors from over 100,000 first page Google rankings, Brandon Gaylee.

In the last episode, I covered the role affiliate links and ads have played in Google's helpful content update, also known as the HCU.

After reading some listener questions about what I said about affiliate links, I decided to do another episode going deeper

into best practices for continuing to use affiliate links on a block. As I mentioned before,

affiliate links are not all bad. It is the excessive or unnecessary usage of affiliate links

that appears to give off a negative HCU signal.

I said this in the last episode, and I will repeat it again.

When a blogger has excessive affiliate links, the 90-10 rule usually applies, which means

that about 10% of your unique affiliate link placements will account for 90% of your total

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