Affiliate Redirecting

Player777 · 01-28-2011, 03:44 PM

Is it alot better search engine wise to hide all your ugly affiliate links by sending them all to a redirect page on your site which then automatically redirects to an affiliate offer?

Does this redirect page on your site need to be included in sitemap?
Will google penalise your site if its not in your sitemap?

Help is appreciated

raviv · 01-28-2011, 10:35 PM

Hi,
If you do not want Google to see your site as just another affiliate site passing on traffic to vendors, then if you are using Wordpress, you can use the Redirect plugin.

For each affiliate link, you can make it point to a URL on your main site so the search engines will think it is part of your site. But the Redirect plugin will then redirect users to the merchant's site.

If you visit wordpress dot org/extend/plugins/redirection/screenshots/, you can see Source URL and Target URL. You can put a fictitious site URL in the SOurce URL box which is what the engines will see. But you can set up the Target URL to be your affiliate link which is where users will be redirected tol

Best
Raviv

01-28-2011, 03:44 PM	#1
Player777 Active Warrior Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 83 Thanks: 2 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Affiliate Redirecting Is it alot better search engine wise to hide all your ugly affiliate links by sending them all to a redirect page on your site which then automatically redirects to an affiliate offer? Does this redirect page on your site need to be included in sitemap? Will google penalise your site if its not in your sitemap? Help is appreciated

01-28-2011, 10:35 PM	#2
raviv HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 264 Thanks: 66 Thanked 44 Times in 40 Posts	Re: Affiliate Redirecting Hi, If you do not want Google to see your site as just another affiliate site passing on traffic to vendors, then if you are using Wordpress, you can use the Redirect plugin. For each affiliate link, you can make it point to a URL on your main site so the search engines will think it is part of your site. But the Redirect plugin will then redirect users to the merchant's site. If you visit wordpress dot org/extend/plugins/redirection/screenshots/, you can see Source URL and Target URL. You can put a fictitious site URL in the SOurce URL box which is what the engines will see. But you can set up the Target URL to be your affiliate link which is where users will be redirected tol Best Raviv