How to avoid showing Affiliate External links via Robots.txt

HI,

I want to avoid the external links that show up in mah site

http://www.ibuyonlinestore.com

i have in robots.txt file as under:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /astore.amazon.com/onlinestor02d-20
Disallow: /www.jdoqocy.com/click-2711020

Will this work? As i had done recently and i have heard that google won't follow the Robots.txt rules but m not confirmed.

Is there any other method in Robots.txt ??

Help needed
Suggestions welcome

renderpixel

 

Just cloak your links.

 

Yep..cloak is the best way.

hanji

 

what does cloak mean?

 

Basically it means to show target link destination to a page that is internal, but using PHP or mod_rewrite or other techniques, you redirect that request to the final destination (affiliate page). This way all links on your page to be 'inbound' vs. 'outbound'.

I wrote a post about this a while ago..
URL Masking (cloaking)

Hope this helps
hanji

 

niceee!!!i like this

thanks for the tip

 

How to use with Blogger?

Thanks...

 

i read your artilce and i like the php version, but dont really know how to figure it out, can you pls explain to me step by step?

Thanks

 

If you have a link going http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-2711020 (using first post example).. and let's say that is to Dell you would create a new page in your web root somewhere called dell.php.

In that page, you'd have this:

<?php
header("Location:http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-2711020");
exit();
?>

PHP:

Now on your blog/store/whatever, instead of showing this link (http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-2711020), you would use the following:

<a href="dell.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Dell Offer</a>

Code (markup):

This way bots, etc. looking at the source code think that dell.php is part of your site, but actually redirects to CJ's dell offer.

Make sense?

hanji

 

Not sure how you would do this with Blogger. I'm assuming you can't upload PHP scripts there. You might be able to do redirects from another domain you have control over? This could be a TOS problem depending on the merchant though, since you'd be redirecting to a domain you have control of.. then redirecting to CJ. I've never done it that way.

hanji

 

i tried your php example, but i think its not what im looking for, i have something like 400 pages with ebay products every page displays 200 items and all have the rover link!Isnt there some code to insert in the php file that when i user goes on the item it will display www.mydomain.com at the bottom instead of rover..... i would like this becuase search engines woulndt see the rover links.

hope you understand what i mean

thanks

 

You'll want to research mod_rewrite and/or redirect directive in .htaccess file. You'll need to pass information (info about the rover) to a receiving page or tell the webserver to handle this (mod_rewrite/redirect if it's Apache).

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#redirect

hanji

 

thanks hanjii!! ill look into this

 

or if you are using PHPbayPro you can use the built in mod-write on the urls and then just disallow auctions.php in the robots