I am thinking about using redirect pages for my affiliate products on my site. For example, http://www.mysite.com/toys would be a folder with an index.html page in it and nothing else. The code would be: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title></title> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" Content="0; URL=http://www.amazon.com/cmd.php?af=xxxxxx"> </head><body> </body></html> My questions are: 1. By doing this, I will not have too many outbound links. Does that really matter? 2. Should I put a no follow tag or whatever you call it in those redirect pages? 3. Is there anything else I should be concerned about using this method of hiding my affiliate links? Thanks, Zeek
This is not a smart way to redirect !! Have a look at this article: SEO Redirect Remember: This will refresh and Search Engines hates it !! let me know if u have any further query !
Thanks DPKing. I appreciate the response and article. Very interesting. My hosting company mentioned that they automatically take care of the issue of mysite.com and www.mysite.com. I'm not sure how they do it. I checked the htaccess file and don't have anything in there but can still arrive at my site with or without the www. I do have a question. Isn't there a way to tell the search engines not to read that file? I'm going to take your advice and not do it, but just want to learn a little) Thanks again, Zeek
Chances are they're using mod_rewrite to take care of the www and no-www issue. Besides, you don't want to be doing this anyway. Just link to the page directly and be done with it.