most affiliate programs have 1000's of affiliates that link back to them using link to sell their product or service. So if a program has 10000 links back to them from every site why do some affiliate programs have such low rankings in google?? this defy's the normal seo logic
simple answer. Lets refer to clickbank for example. you affiliate link is not www.xxxxxxxx.com (or the domain of the actual affiliate program), but rather the link is for example: username.hello.clickbank.net - so as you can see, its not really linking to the website, therefore not really helping with SEO, which explains the low rankings. nice question though.
whats useless abou tthat? linking to internal pages is better look at adult programs for example, they go straight to the site, and still dont have good seo
Hi DharmaSeo, I'll tell you exactly why it doen't improve SEO. When promoting an affiliate program, people link with a hoplink. in clickbank it's something like that: http://xxxxx.yyyyy.hop.clickbank.net. When you link this way, all the link juice and weight goes to that page, and not to the final page that you see when clicking a click like that. All the link weight goes to clickbank.net (not clickbank.com). However, some affiliate links look like that: www.website.com/?ref=1230 This way, the site does get the link weight. This is very bad for affiliates, becuase they risk in pushing the site they promote in the SE, which may hurt their own sales in the end. Hope this made things clearer...
exactly what i thought, so in the second case with the ref codes...how come some big adult affiliates that use this method have such poor seo rankings if 1000's of people are linking to them and not using nofollow?