I have some sites that list ebay items for sale (see the vw link in my sig). I have large pages of items, which are currently using a 302 from a php script to redirect to the affiliate link. This means I have thousands of indexed pages that don't do anything because they have no content other than the redirect. One of my sites got most of its pages dropped from the index whcih is what prompted my "investigation." Most of the pages have very little to no body text on them, only anchor text. I want to know the optimal way to set this up. Currently the item title is the anchor text to the redirect script, but I have a feeling this isn't what I should be doing. Other options: Link directly to the affiliate links Make my items load in a frame or iframe, avoiding redirects. Use a 301 Make it so the item titles aren't the anchor text (body text instead), and create some other link to the items. (combined with one of the above methods) What is the best way to go as far as SEO goes? I need traffic and I have a feeling that having 100 outgoing links with a 302 on them on every item page could get me in trouble.
Does anyone have an answer to this? Please help, way too large a percentage of my revenue depends on these links being setup in the most google-friendly way possible.