Hi there, I've heard somewhere that Google gets put off by too many affiliate links on a page - so should I add the rel=nofollow to each of my affiliate links? Thanks. Matt
Hi, If you mean that Google will put you off because of too many affiliate links than: If Google does that, than using no-follow or not will not help you - it is still an affiliate link. By using no-follow, you will for sure lower the transfer of your PR points to your affiliate links. I hope I did target your question properly. Regards
it might be better to: create your own internal links (ex: yourdomain.com/affiliatelink1.html) with nofollow add a redirect in your .htaccess for these links (redirect affiliatelink1.html to your actual affiliate link) exclude these pages (links) in your robots.txt file
I agree with the comment. You can use the robots.txt file wisely and also Google it self recommends that. Regards
I thought I read somewhere that adding the rel=nofollow attribute was enough - is this advice wrong? How can you check to see what Google recommends? Thanks
I was being penalized by Google so I nofollowed all my affiliate links. Eventually the penalty was removed but I made many changes so i dont know that the affiliate links were necessarily the cause. I will continue to nofollow them though. No reason to pass them any link juice...I'll keep it alllll to myself.
Hi, About the link juces - YES, you do not have to pass them to other sites. About what Google recommends - go to the Google webmaster center and find your answers. You will find what to do in affiliate links case and how to use your robots.txt file. Regards
yes, I have nofollow tags too, as the main thing for affiliate links is that people will click on it, so if u add a no follow tag, it will not make any difference at all for the users clicking on it.