SEO benefit of affiliate links?

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by Notting, Aug 14, 2007.

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    Notting, Aug 14, 2007 IP
  2. MrX

    MrX Well-Known Member

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    That's why it's common practice to nofollow aff links. Even better yet, mask them and block the masked dir/file with robots.txt and nofollow the masked links.

    To answer your question, yes there would be an SEO benefit to that site.
     
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    thnx for reminding me, i need to nofollow all my links!!
     
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    Is better if you make your aff links un-follow also because a lot of affiliates spam these links everywhere
     
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    Elfen Lied Banned

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    Yes, affiliate programs always help to improve your site rank because it’s generated traffic. For more traffic content always useful so you should be added some these type of keyword that’s very helpful for increasing rank such like "fantastic offers", "great offers", "best". Some other way to increasing your ranking, Do Link Exchanges with other sites that are on the same subject as yours, Pay for direct advertising on sites that are on the same subject as yours, Take part in banner exchanges, Purchase banner advertising, Advertise in offline media, Advertise in offline and online classifieds.
     
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    Now a days its very complicated to get traffic to affiliate product. We are doing affiliate for vps hosting. but the think every buddy started affiliate to this services. so its very complicated to get the valuable visitors. I wont get any gain from this services. So i decided to target different services, Please suggest me which services is better from affiliate.
     
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    SEOBook's Aaron Wall believed that his affiliate program had been targeted by Google and its value was shut down (he wrote about the incident a bit here, and I believe he blames me personally for this, though it certainly wasn't my intent). I confronted some Googlers about it after that (mostly because I thought it was BS to announce it's "safe" then penalize for it), but never got a straight answer.

    It might just be one of those scenarios where the truth is, "it depends." If you're a big brand like Amazon and web denizens link with affiliate codes by default, even when making "wikipedia-style" references, maybe Google wants to count those, but doesn't want to count those they feel might be manipulative/for money only. In any case, a nasty gray area and a frustrating one for many SEOs/webmasters/sites over the years.
     
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