Hiding affiliate links from search engines?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by trev0006, Oct 21, 2006.

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    What is the best way to hide affiliate links from search engine bots?
    do you guys use no follow?
    for example if this is the affiliate link from CJ:
    http://www.tkqlhce.com/123456789

    What would it look like with the code and still not interfere with the referral? yet the search engine would not know you are using affiliate programs.

    Thanks
     
    trev0006, Oct 21, 2006 IP
  2. rhianna

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    This site offers a suggestion with a mouseover technique (and there are other sites with similar suggestions):

    websitesrelated.com/hide_the_true_affiliate_url.html

    (since I am relatively new I might not be able to post live links yet -- put http:// in front of the above url).

    Earlier in October I was toying with link hiding ideas, but to tell the truth, I became frustrated and gave up :eek:

    My biggest problem was dealing with specific product picture links.
    No matter how I tried, the hide-the-link method wasn't working for me at all and I realized that I was giving more attention to fiddling around with mouseovers than with creating web pages :eek: So I stopped and I did okay selling Halloween stuff with CJ without hiding links.
     
    rhianna, Oct 21, 2006 IP