Does this php affiliate cloak work?

Discussion in 'PHP' started by KunkVentures, Dec 16, 2007.

  1. #1
    i have a php page that grabs an id from a query string and directs to the appropriate link.

    for example link.php?id=page1

    If i block the link.php from being indexed inside my robots.txt file will this effectively stop those links from passing juice to the affiliate site?

    Thanks.
     
    KunkVentures, Dec 16, 2007 IP
  2. Gawk

    Gawk Peon

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    If 'juice' means pagerank then you can put a nofollow tag on the link (rel="nofollow")
     
    Gawk, Dec 16, 2007 IP
  3. pwaring

    pwaring Well-Known Member

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    It should do, yes. Basically you are telling the search engines not to bother indexing those links, and if they don't follow them then they can't be assigned a pagerank (or whatever Yahoo and MSN use).
     
    pwaring, Dec 17, 2007 IP