azoogle and rel="nofollow"

[kdb003]

I have some azoogle ads on one of my websites, and I thought a quick and easy way to stop the search engines from following the links would be to slap a rel="nofollow". Bad idea. I generated about 200 clicks with no leads before removing the links. Right after I removed the nofollow, I start generating leads...

I guess this makes sense, because the nofollow tag is typically added to places where users can spam. I just did not know that azoogle(and possibly other affiliate sites) could detect when a user came through a nofollow link.

[GuyFromChicago]

why would no following the link make a difference one way or the other?

[kdb003]

thats what I thought when I was putting the links up

[GuyFromChicago]

Did you ask azoogle if the nofollow would be an issue? My guess is it's not and what you saw was/is just a coincedence.

[ash1]

how do azoogle ads pay? better than chikita or adsense?

[kdb003]

Did you ask azoogle if the nofollow would be an issue? My guess is it's not and what you saw was/is just a coincedence.

No, I did not ask azoogle. Perhaps it is a coincidence, but I am highly doubting it.

[GuyFromChicago]

No, I did not ask azoogle. Perhaps it is a coincidence, but I am highly doubting it.

Only one way to know for sure - call them;)

[kdb003]

Only one way to know for sure - call them;)

or someone could post and say they are getting leads through nofollow links

[GuyFromChicago]

I am getting leads using nofollow links with azoogle.












(did that really tell you anything?)

[mykel79]

I don't think there is a technical possibility for them to know if a surfer came from a nofollow link. Azoogle would have to crawl your pages to know that you're using nofollow links. It must have been a coincidence.