Linking Effectively / Internal Link Popularity

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by jewelryzen, Jul 30, 2009.

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    Is this a correct statement? The more times a page is linked throughout a site, the more important Google interprets that page as being to your site and in SERPs.

    I ask because we use an in house affiliate app to tag our links, but am worried that using different affiliate ID's is hurting our link popularity.

    IE:

    www.mysite.com/product-page.asp

    vs.

    www.mysite.com/product-page.asp?AffiliateID=Whatever

    Will adding the ?AffiliateID=Whatever cause the crawler to interpret this link as being different than the original? Would we be better off keeping all links exactly the same, or does it not matter?

    Any help is appreciated.
     
    jewelryzen, Jul 30, 2009 IP
  2. Wollongong

    Wollongong Peon

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    Google will probably interpret this as a purchased link, and penalize accordingly. Google doesn't like bought links much.
     
    Wollongong, Jul 30, 2009 IP
  3. jewelryzen

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    What makes you think they will interpret this as a purchased link?
     
    jewelryzen, Jul 30, 2009 IP
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    it sees your website linking structure
     
    SabQat, Jul 31, 2009 IP
  5. adithya

    adithya Well-Known Member

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    Many Affiliates after getting the Affiliate id will do a 301 redirect to the product page ..
    
I mean ex:
www.blah.com/product.php?id=134
will finally cause a redirect to
www.blah.com/product.php
    Code (markup):
    after getting the id and adding a tracking cookie ..

    I have seen similar behavior in some Affiliate and it is SEO friendly behaviour
     
    adithya, Jul 31, 2009 IP