apologies to interupt the debate on Affiliate marketing but just
thought i'd mention that our banana bar page is on page 2 of google's
main index.
This  reaffrims the point that even if the page is in the supplemental
index it can still appear in the main Google index and i must apologise
to Adam for my previous bleetings. (except the one about speeding up
the re-examination of supplemental pages)

To return to affiliate marketing, it has gained a bad reputation
(rightly or wrongly) firstly as  it was considered to be a major source
of e-mail spam and seconly many affiliates create large amounts of
autogenerated webpages each devoted to different competitive keywords,
which is the reason, as i understand Google apply a stricter criteria.

network and carefully police everyone who joins that network, making
sure that content is not duplicated throughout that network. I may be
talking totally complete rubbish as i have no personal experience of
affiliate marketing except avoiding any web-page festooned with adverts.