Affiliation - what is it? What does affiliation mean when it comes to organizations, websites or legal entities?

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The word "affiliation" is rarely heard in ordinary everyday speech, since most average citizens have no idea what it means. Meanwhile, it very often began to slip in news reports, various analytical materials. Especially if we are talking about some kind of fraud or operations that are simply inaccessible to ordinary people in the legal and economic spheres, as well as in economic and organizational activities. And here the question arises: affiliation - what is it? It is worth understanding this in order to understand what is at stake when you hear the word again.

The concept of affiliation and its origins

This word came from the English affiliate, formed fromlate Latin filialis, which means "filial". In English, this word means accession, that is, the term affilation will mean "connection" or "connection". So, understanding the concept of affiliation, what it is, we are already beginning to understand. It turns out that this is a connection, a connection, a child belonging to something. If we talk about the correct spelling, then the test word here is "branch", that is, it is correct to write "affiliation".

In a general sense, this word means the dependence of a certain object on a larger one, its connection or subordination to it. Often this term is used in the context of conversations about firms and organizations, you can even consider such a thing as site affiliation.

Using the term in different situations

So, if everything is more or less clear with the concept itself, then it is worth considering it in different contexts. If we talk about firms and companies, then affiliation can also be used here. What this is becomes clear if we say that we are talking about the organization belonging to a large company as a branch. At the same time, a subsidiary may well carry out its own economic activities, own its own reporting, but maintain the direction of the main company, and also completely depend on the decision of its management. Practice shows that today affiliation is often used to artificially split a business,to evade paying taxes, which causes a lot of trouble for the fiscal authorities and other government agencies.

Affiliates

This concept implies that an individual or legal entity has the right and methods to influence the work of a business entity, expressed as an individual or legal entity, as it owns a share of its capital or is in the management body of the organization. This is where affiliation lies. What is it, and who can be considered as such? Members of the supervisory board and the board of directors, the executive director, a member of the collegial executive body, and others may be affiliated persons. They also include those who have the right to dispose of more than twenty percent of the capital of the entire company or can influence the above positions.

When a legal entity joins a financial and industrial group, we can say that its members are also affiliated persons. However, today this concept is more often used with a negative connotation, since it means participants or firms that have effective levers of pressure on a legal entity, but hide their presence in its economic activities.

Affiliated Sites

On the Internet, it is also appropriate to use this concept. And here, under it, sites are hidden that have been given an auxiliary role in promoting the main resource, which is the parent. They are often referred to as satellites or doorways. Usually, a whole network is immediately created, consisting of doorways, which are intended for users to go to the promoted resource. So, it is worth considering affiliation, what it means in this context, using the Yandex search engine as an example. Namely, how you can get out of such a filter and which sites fall under it most often.

If the contact information on two sites completely or partially coincides, then "Yandex" perceives them as belonging to the same company, considering them affiliated. He has a special relationship with them - and here his position is that affiliated resources cannot be shown simultaneously in the search results. That is, two of your sites will not appear simultaneously as a result of a search for one keyword, or "Yandex" will not display any of them at all.

Knowing that Yandex checks for affiliation, it should be understood that such sites should not be promoted on overlapping lists of key queries, as it will not allow them to take top places in the search results. In the case when there is no intersection of the list of keywords, you can achieve the desired result.

How does it work?

The most relevant site will be shown in the results for each search query. By this, it should be understood that Yandex will determine which of them best matches the entered query. Of course, there are other factors that affect the position of the resource in the results: the age of the site, the quality and quantitylinks to it, etc. Most often, the sites of fairly large companies that create a large number of resources for each regional center or city fall under the filter.

How not to be filtered?

Most often it works automatically. The filter applied in this way is usually removed in the same way, so there is no point in writing long explanatory letters to the search engine support service. It is only required to eliminate the signs of affiliation and wait until the filter is automatically removed. If you have purchased a new domain for yourself, and you have nothing to do with sites from an affiliated network, the filter will be removed very quickly. It is often enough for Yandex to have sites with a similar range of products, descriptions and similarity of domain names in order to recognize them as affiliated. The situation is aggravated if there is a match in the registration data of hosting and domains.