Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Google is relying on back links now more than ever. That's primarily all it's about is your back links (which is silly but I'll save that discussion). If you have good back links which are not spammy you will come up first. If you have great unique content but no quality back links you'll lose. People forget too that affiliate content isn't technically original unique content. Google can even read flash now. To Google it's the same crap 1000 other sites have.