azoogle and rel="nofollow"

Discussion in 'Affiliate Programs' started by kdb003, Jun 27, 2006.

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    I have some azoogle ads on one of my websites, and I thought a quick and easy way to stop the search engines from following the links would be to slap a rel="nofollow". Bad idea. I generated about 200 clicks with no leads before removing the links. Right after I removed the nofollow, I start generating leads...

    I guess this makes sense, because the nofollow tag is typically added to places where users can spam. I just did not know that azoogle(and possibly other affiliate sites) could detect when a user came through a nofollow link.
     
    kdb003, Jun 27, 2006 IP
  2. GuyFromChicago

    GuyFromChicago Permanent Peon

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    why would no following the link make a difference one way or the other?
     
    GuyFromChicago, Jun 27, 2006 IP
  3. kdb003

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    thats what I thought when I was putting the links up
     
    kdb003, Jun 27, 2006 IP
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    Did you ask azoogle if the nofollow would be an issue? My guess is it's not and what you saw was/is just a coincedence.
     
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    how do azoogle ads pay? better than chikita or adsense?
     
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    No, I did not ask azoogle. Perhaps it is a coincidence, but I am highly doubting it.
     
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    Only one way to know for sure - call them;)
     
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    or someone could post and say they are getting leads through nofollow links
     
    kdb003, Jun 27, 2006 IP
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    I am getting leads using nofollow links with azoogle.












    (did that really tell you anything?)
     
    GuyFromChicago, Jun 27, 2006 IP
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    I don't think there is a technical possibility for them to know if a surfer came from a nofollow link. Azoogle would have to crawl your pages to know that you're using nofollow links. It must have been a coincidence.
     
    mykel79, Jun 29, 2006 IP