Affiliate links and SEO ?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Daoteo, Feb 27, 2009.

  1. #1
    Will affiliate links on my blog affect SEO in any way ? Should I mask them or put a no-follow ?
     
    Daoteo, Feb 27, 2009 IP
  2. jcsarokin

    jcsarokin Member

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    Dont put no-follow if the people your affiliating with dont know about it. Thats bad business. You will get backlinks for your affiliate links ( conicdering that they return the links on their site )
     
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  3. rena

    rena Peon

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    Affiliate links not harm to the site.. and even if u add nofollow tooo google will understating that its cookie filling
     
    rena, Feb 27, 2009 IP
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    what is this cookie filling???
     
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    Showing affiliate links on your site would not make any harm to your site in terms of ranking. However it would be considered as your business partners
     
    dineshgour, Feb 28, 2009 IP
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    zexy Guest

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    You should use NoFollow, redirects and whatnot to hide them.
    Google doesn't like affiliate links. Maybe because they're too commercial :D
     
    zexy, Feb 28, 2009 IP
  7. gadiez

    gadiez Active Member

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    you can hide link affiliate with .htaccess
     
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  8. stijnne

    stijnne Banned

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    You can use this bit of Javascript ;)
     <a href="http://URL THAT NEEDS TO BE SHOWN" onclick="parent.location.href='http://URL WITH REFER ID'; return event.returnValue=false">ANCHOR TEXT HERE</a>, 
    Code (markup):
    It works for me! ;)



    Greetz
     
    stijnne, Feb 28, 2009 IP
  9. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    use nofollow on affiliate links or you can use redirection through another internal page. for example, once someone clicks on an affiliate link, say download video, then you can have another blank page created with filename download-video.htm or something where you use html redirection to direct the page to your affiliate site. second method is used my affiliate marketers to install tracking code on the page to detremin who clicked on the link, where did they come from, whether that click converted or not, etc. but if you want to keep it simple, just add nofollow
     
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    stephen082 Active Member

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    I think adding nofollow is a good thing you can do. Clocking your affiliate links is another option.
     
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    Bedwan Active Member

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    Thanks for the tip, I will be using this in my new site :)
     
    Bedwan, Feb 28, 2009 IP