I wonder if it is bad for SEO to have an affiliate link on my site? It is not a nofollow link (it's a link in the blogroll of my WP blog). Should I rather remove the link or make it nofollow?
No affiliate links dont dock your SEO at all. Some people may recommend that you have them cloaked, however.
I do not think it will make any difference to have either an affiliate link or a regular out-bound link... But it will be better if you eliminate affiliate out-bound link by using "no follow" tag on it.... Thanks
instead of nofollw tag, try to mask them use these one... marketingrocketdotcomslashprodapr.php http://www.filedudes.com/Profit_Protector-download-30339.html or pm me, if you want free...
affiliate links do not hurt you, but you are giving away PR to the affiliate. since it is your blog, make also a link from your blog and you will hit the cat. regards
Grrrr Having an affiliate link from your site is not selling a link.... and who gives two cents what Google thinks??? When Google says they do not like link selling it is meant that they do like links sold for influencing PageRank or SERP listings. Nowhere does it say you cannot sell links to drive traffic to other peoples sites!!!!!! Before anyone makes such a silly claim I suggest you search Google for the keyword term buy links See all the sites listed? They'll still be there for months and months and months in the future!! Believe half of what you read and none of what you hear.
You then pass the PR juice to tinyurl.com . As most already suggested, mask them with a link to your site. I use the "no follow tag", but that is just out of laziness.
Who said John Chow was penalized for affiliate links?? Remember I never said being dumb and selling your soul wouldn't get you a smack down. I said an affiliate link. I run an affiliate link in my sig that google indexes like crazy Its all about moderation ......and John Chow didn't seem to catch that message... Besides he made a fortune so hopefully he saved it and didn't go on a spending spree like most .com minutemen.
When we say affiliate links I'm guessing we are talking about sponsors. Does anyone have some easy tips to #1 encrypting footer links in a template so novice users cannot remove them, and #2 masking links so you don't get PR docked?
You can encrypt footer links the same as any other link. The amount of PR you would lose is fractional of a fraction. You would be better off building a link back to the site with the time it would take to stop minimal PR dilution. If PR dilution is a concern then the SEO done to the site is weak
even thou I do believe that Google does not like link selling, I do agree that such sites still exist on Google. What is even the best, some of them have high PR's whereas others don't. So I agree that it is up to the SEO management. Good thinking Sem-Advance