Should my outgoing affiliate links be nofollow on my html site?

clarethwaites · 02-12-2011, 06:13 PM

Hey everyone,

Im making an html website SEOd and optimized up to the eyeballs with everything I know so far :-) LOL!

Its a review site style. Id like to put my affiliate link to where people can buy each product Im reviewing - on every photo of each product (I have 1 or 2 different but similar pics per review) - and also on the h1 text with the product name, and maybe twice in the body text too.

Firstly does anyone think that's overkill?? If so why/why not? ;-)

I found the code so that my links open in a new window, which is working fab, and Im thinking perhaps I should assign each of my affiliate links, to be no follow.

ONLY the affiliate links, and then have lots of natural links working great.

What do you guys think?

Ive heard the more affiliate links you have on a site, the less Google rates you... the only affiliate links are to maybe 10 very closely related products x by however many of the same links I use per product.

I just read some posts here coming at it from the other angle ie where you guys want backlinks TO your site from other sites... but those other sites are nofollow blogs... you were discussing whether they were valid or not -

And those posts were suggesting that bing and yahoo follow the links ANYWAY LOL and pay no attention to the nofollow html code - and google can see where they go but doesn't pay attention to it.

But overall, there IS some value in nofollow links and search engines DO see them.

Is this correct?? For my case, would this be bad for organic rankings?? Having lots of affiliate links?

Do you think it would help my organic rankings if I:

1. Put less affiliate links for each product and
2. Used or didn't use the nofollow tag for each link???

I want to make this the absolute super best optimized site I can.

It would be amazing if some of you could give me your advice and a tiny bit of your experience. :-) If you need any audio help please just ask.

Best wishes, Clare :-)

rosalina · 02-12-2011, 07:45 PM

i think you would need to redirect your affiliate and add rel=nofollow to it but as your site are manually design it is not easy. If it is on wp platform, everything is pretty easy to do it

afam4eva · 02-12-2011, 07:52 PM

I think if you have so many affiliate links on your site without the rel=nofollow attribute. Those affiliate links tend to suck some of your SEO juice which reduced your site's position in google.

paulgl · 02-12-2011, 07:58 PM

You are mixing up what nofollow is for. Is to not pass PR to combat a link
that may be spammed on your site.

Since YOU are the one putting it there, it's not spam, now is it?

If you don't want to pass PR to the affiliate site, so be it. But nofollow
links like that is not what the nofollow was intended.

Google does not go blind with nofollow. It has nothing to do with seeing,
crawling, or indexing.

So putting nofollow will accomplish nothing.

The best practice would be to stop stuffing a page with affiliate links period.

Pages like that are not looked upon well by google, and nofollow does nothing
to improve the situation.

Paul

clarethwaites · 02-12-2011, 08:17 PM

Hey everyone who replied thank you so much!

Much appreciated :-)

02-12-2011, 06:13 PM	#1
clarethwaites Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: London, UK Posts: 83 Thanks: 75 Thanked 14 Times in 12 Posts Social Networking	Should my outgoing affiliate links be nofollow on my html site? Hey everyone, Im making an html website SEOd and optimized up to the eyeballs with everything I know so far :-) LOL! Its a review site style. Id like to put my affiliate link to where people can buy each product Im reviewing - on every photo of each product (I have 1 or 2 different but similar pics per review) - and also on the h1 text with the product name, and maybe twice in the body text too. Firstly does anyone think that's overkill?? If so why/why not? ;-) I found the code so that my links open in a new window, which is working fab, and Im thinking perhaps I should assign each of my affiliate links, to be no follow. ONLY the affiliate links, and then have lots of natural links working great. What do you guys think? Ive heard the more affiliate links you have on a site, the less Google rates you... the only affiliate links are to maybe 10 very closely related products x by however many of the same links I use per product. I just read some posts here coming at it from the other angle ie where you guys want backlinks TO your site from other sites... but those other sites are nofollow blogs... you were discussing whether they were valid or not - And those posts were suggesting that bing and yahoo follow the links ANYWAY LOL and pay no attention to the nofollow html code - and google can see where they go but doesn't pay attention to it. But overall, there IS some value in nofollow links and search engines DO see them. Is this correct?? For my case, would this be bad for organic rankings?? Having lots of affiliate links? Do you think it would help my organic rankings if I: 1. Put less affiliate links for each product and 2. Used or didn't use the nofollow tag for each link??? I want to make this the absolute super best optimized site I can. It would be amazing if some of you could give me your advice and a tiny bit of your experience. :-) If you need any audio help please just ask. Best wishes, Clare :-)

02-12-2011, 07:45 PM	#2
rosalina Active Warrior Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 29 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Should my outgoing affiliate links be nofollow on my html site? i think you would need to redirect your affiliate and add rel=nofollow to it but as your site are manually design it is not easy. If it is on wp platform, everything is pretty easy to do it
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paulgl Plundering the Web War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: , , . Posts: 4,849 Thanks: 804 Thanked 1,199 Times in 886 Posts	Re: Should my outgoing affiliate links be nofollow on my html site? You are mixing up what nofollow is for. Is to not pass PR to combat a link that may be spammed on your site. Since YOU are the one putting it there, it's not spam, now is it? If you don't want to pass PR to the affiliate site, so be it. But nofollow links like that is not what the nofollow was intended. Google does not go blind with nofollow. It has nothing to do with seeing, crawling, or indexing. So putting nofollow will accomplish nothing. The best practice would be to stop stuffing a page with affiliate links period. Pages like that are not looked upon well by google, and nofollow does nothing to improve the situation. Paul
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clarethwaites Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: London, UK Posts: 83 Thanks: 75 Thanked 14 Times in 12 Posts Social Networking	Re: Should my outgoing affiliate links be nofollow on my html site? Hey everyone who replied thank you so much! Much appreciated :-)