Hello, I was in doubt for some time whether to post it here or in Link Dev forums, but if someone can answer I'll apreciate. Can google follow this type of links and count it as a backlink? http://affiliateprogramid.affiliateprogramname.hop.clickbank.net/?xsite=something Need to understand whether google understands or not where this links take. Thanks.
It is redirected. Sorry guys I thought you may be aware of Clickbank's techinques. It actually redirects to www.serviceprovidingsite.tld/?hop=youraffiliatename So can Google or can not?
No, it won't count as a backlink. Google sometimes will count 301 redirected links, but in this case, it's not.
But I see him counting! At least following those links. My assumption is exactly as yours, but what i see is really strange. what if, inside the link there is the actual site name like actualsitename.com ? http://affiliateprogramid.affiliateprogramname(actualsitename.com).hop.clickbank.net/?xsite=something
It all depends on how the link is redirected. Specifically, it depends on the http header information that every crawler/spider reads. To see what a crawler sees go to this site: http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html You can enter one of my websites to see what happens. The site is http://www.consensor.com. When you look at the results, you will see that the header info reports a 301 redirect (permanently moved) to www.comtec-ars.com. Then it provides info on the default page at www.comtec-ars.com. Then try your link. Googlebot will follow the trail as easily as the Rex Swain tool follows it. As for PR (if that's your real question) the answer is "no one knows". Others may act like they know, but they do not. If there are no "nofollows" along the road then PR *may* pass. G's rules regarding "related content" then kick in. If the content is related and there are no nofollows and the crawler follows header directives, then PR would most likely pass. However, that's a lot of "Ifs". /*tom*/
Throw it in a header check tool - http://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php If it's a 302, it's not going to help you, if it's 301 - then yes, it'll count.
Not completely true. Just because it's a 301, doesn't mean it'll count for sure. According to Matt Cutts, 301 redirects may or may not count towards PR juice.
I didn't realise. I guess it depends on relevance and how many 301 loops it goes through. 301 redirects on your own site certainly count.
I was not sure if it does, but after reading some of the comments here, I got more interested in this topic, will search on the net and get back to you
OK, guys. Thanks for replies. So it's a 301 redirect and I really don't care about PR. If you see this is for affiliate sites and its incoming links. It turns out that such links can hurt you a lot, IF google understands them, follows them, as most of the affiliates don't care where they put your link - including bad, spam and banned sites. So if everyone agrees that in case of 301 redirect google follows those links let's see the next point. Is there anything that is possible to do to avoid these links. I mean with this type of linking I automatically end up in a bad neibourhood. Ideas?
Have the affiliate program point them to a landing page that is blocked on your robots.txt, not on your sitemap and has "noindex,nofollow". That's all I can think of.
Hi,guys I get:The target url was invalid. Please contact the publisher to get it fixed. ...You change it ?