Nofollow for affiliate links

Hi guys,

Should I include nofollow tag with the affiliate link to be;

<a href="http://www.domian.com/affiliate-ID/" rel="nofollow">Anchor Text</a>

Any experiences??

 

Yeah, I'm doing that. Why to pass the link juice to the affiliate?

 

I bet Google would like it if you did.... I think nofollow tags translate to search engines that atleast your using it and they should be able to trust the rest of the links on the page...

 

Hell yeah you should. Web pages leak PR like a sieve anyway. Controlling where it goes is one of the first things you should do and giving PR to affiliate links isn't a good idea anyway. Give the PR love to the pages you want - the ones inside your site and those external pages you feel are deserving of it.

 

yeah. I have a load of affiliate pages hosted on my site. Some of them were starting to rank. so i stuck a NoFollow in the head of each page...

 

Actually you should put the nofollows on the affiliate links that way the links to the other pages in your site can still get their internal PR "credit".

 

yes exactly you can use it.

 

haha... sorry. I confused myself there. I used a Noindex, follow attribute in the head. all the links on my affiliate pages are internal.

 

So your pages aren't even being indexed? What's the point of that? (Or are these pages you deliberately do NOT want indexed?)

 

yes. they are my affiliates' pages. so I don't want them to be indexed...

 

That's completely understandable then.