Hi, I've read on other threads that Google penalises pages that contain a lot of affilate links. I have such a page, and have tried all the suggestions of modifiying the .htaccess file to setup a redirect, but can't seem to get that working. I was wondering if the following simple idea would have the same effect ? (My apologies if I have missed something really simple!) If I replaced the <a href="www.affiliate.com/etc"> with <a href="www.mysite.com/apage.html"> and then created a page called apage.html which contained the affilate link code, then set robots.txt to ignore apage.html, would this work ? Also, what code would I need to include in apage.html so it automatically opened the link ? Thanks in advance, Mike.
You could setup a meta redirect for the apage.html. <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://www.afilliateprogram.com/link"> Code (markup): The number after content is how many seconds until the browse refreshes. You could put .1 and it would refresh almost automatically. Just put the code at the top of the page where all the meta tags are
Thanks for that, is it worth adding a rel="nofollow" to the first link, or will the robots.txt ignore apage.html anyway ?