How can i stop search engines from crawling my affiliate links?

[chinweike]

Please i need help on how to stop search engines from crawling affiliate links in the body of my articles?

Or is there no purnishment for adding affiliate links in the body of articles in your blog?

Your answers will be highly valued

[Marko Vel]

Hello chinweike
Maybe this will help you

"There will be some occassions in which webmaster of a site needs to stop search engines to crawl their web site.

* Like they want to give access to only to members.
* Data that they don’t want to be indexed in search engine results.

You can use two methods to stop search engines to crawl your web site:

* robots.txt in your root folder. Create a file called robots.txt on your computer. Keep the following lines in it and save.

User-agent:* Disallow: /

Upload it to your web site root folder in ASCII mode. This will stop crawling of your site by the robots that follow robots.txt rules.

But there are some bad bots that don’t care about robots.txt. You need .htaccess as an alternative.

* .htaccess protection. 99% of host panels now allow you to create password protection folders by selecting the directory and enter a user name and password.

Login into your web panel (Your host provides this host panel to manage your site) and see for a link ‘Password protection’ or ‘directory protection’. You can use that link to password protect your web site folders.

Steps:
1. Login your host panel.
2. Click on ‘Password protect Directories’. (This can be little vary from host to host.)



3. Navigate to the folder by clicking folder icons. Click on the folder name which needs to be protected. In this case your root directory folder like ‘public_html’, ‘httpdocs’, ‘html’ etc.



4. Enter needed details and password protect the whole site.

1a – Check the box
1b – Enter ‘Protected Area’
1c- Save.
This creates .htaccess file in the folder.

2a – Enter user name and password
2b – Add user
This creates .htpasswd file above root folder in ‘.htpasswds’.

This is basic method to add password protect directories in cpanel."

[chinweike]

Originally Posted by Marko.V

Hello chinweike
Maybe this will help you

"There will be some occassions in which webmaster of a site needs to stop search engines to crawl their web site.

* Like they want to give access to only to members.
* Data that they don’t want to be indexed in search engine results.

You can use two methods to stop search engines to crawl your web site:

* robots.txt in your root folder. Create a file called robots.txt on your computer. Keep the following lines in it and save.

User-agent:* Disallow: /

Upload it to your web site root folder in ASCII mode. This will stop crawling of your site by the robots that follow robots.txt rules.

But there are some bad bots that don’t care about robots.txt. You need .htaccess as an alternative.

* .htaccess protection. 99% of host panels now allow you to create password protection folders by selecting the directory and enter a user name and password.

Login into your web panel (Your host provides this host panel to manage your site) and see for a link ‘Password protection’ or ‘directory protection’. You can use that link to password protect your web site folders.

Steps:
1. Login your host panel.
2. Click on ‘Password protect Directories’. (This can be little vary from host to host.)



3. Navigate to the folder by clicking folder icons. Click on the folder name which needs to be protected. In this case your root directory folder like ‘public_html’, ‘httpdocs’, ‘html’ etc.



4. Enter needed details and password protect the whole site.

1a – Check the box
1b – Enter ‘Protected Area’
1c- Save.
This creates .htaccess file in the folder.

2a – Enter user name and password
2b – Add user
This creates .htpasswd file above root folder in ‘.htpasswds’.

This is basic method to add password protect directories in cpanel."

what am using is a wordpress blog. Is there no other way of doing it. I want a code that i can put my affiliate code in-between. And thanks for the reply

[chinweike]

can someone please help? i don't want to be purnished by search engines

[Jacob Martus]

Why would you be punished for putting affiliate links in your blog? I thought that was the idea of affiliate marketing.

[timpears]

Can't you mask your affiliate links by linking them to another page on your site that is a simple redirect? Then use the robots.text and or the .htaccess process to stop the bots from crawling that page.

I don't understand this too well, but have wondered this myself and done some reading on it and this seems like it should work as well as anything would.

[sean-john]

Originally Posted by Marko.V

Hello chinweike
Maybe this will help you

"There will be some occassions in which webmaster of a site needs to stop search engines to crawl their web site.

* Like they want to give access to only to members.
* Data that they don’t want to be indexed in search engine results.

You can use two methods to stop search engines to crawl your web site:

* robots.txt in your root folder. Create a file called robots.txt on your computer. Keep the following lines in it and save.

User-agent:* Disallow: /

Upload it to your web site root folder in ASCII mode. This will stop crawling of your site by the robots that follow robots.txt rules.

But there are some bad bots that don’t care about robots.txt. You need .htaccess as an alternative.

* .htaccess protection. 99% of host panels now allow you to create password protection folders by selecting the directory and enter a user name and password.

Login into your web panel (Your host provides this host panel to manage your site) and see for a link ‘Password protection’ or ‘directory protection’. You can use that link to password protect your web site folders.

Steps:
1. Login your host panel.
2. Click on ‘Password protect Directories’. (This can be little vary from host to host.)



3. Navigate to the folder by clicking folder icons. Click on the folder name which needs to be protected. In this case your root directory folder like ‘public_html’, ‘httpdocs’, ‘html’ etc.



4. Enter needed details and password protect the whole site.

1a – Check the box
1b – Enter ‘Protected Area’
1c- Save.
This creates .htaccess file in the folder.

2a – Enter user name and password
2b – Add user
This creates .htpasswd file above root folder in ‘.htpasswds’.

This is basic method to add password protect directories in cpanel."

thanks alot i will try this out...

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[chinweike]

Originally Posted by Jacob Martus

Why would you be punished for putting affiliate links in your blog? I thought that was the idea of affiliate marketing.

that is what am not too sure about