DoFollow or NoFollow Affiliate Links?

mfeco · 04-15-2011, 05:01 AM

Which would be better SEO value on a "sniper site" DoFollow or No-Follow affiliate links? What are your thoughts?

geeman12030 · 04-15-2011, 05:29 AM

I got them nofollow:

anchor text is a sales pitch -> no relevant SE keyword
why have another outgoing link?

savita241 · 04-15-2011, 06:03 AM

They both are helpful in SEO, in do follow we get a back link and traffic both but other side (no follow) we get only traffic..

Slaughter · 04-15-2011, 06:05 AM

I do nofollow. By even a single chance, I don't want my affiliate links popping up in SE's.

Karan

Jane Newman · 04-15-2011, 06:12 AM

Just read this post and I'm amazed I've never read up on this before - I've got a couple of finance type sites which have unique content but I also include links to financial products and these links are all affiliate links.

Should I have these links as no follow ?

And is there a quick and simple way of making loads of links 'no follow' in Microsoft Expression Web 3, which is what I use to build my web sites and update them ?

... especially using the WYSIWYG feature as opposed to in the HTML view ?

Cheers in advance and my apologies for hi-jacking your post ...

geeman12030 · 04-15-2011, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Karan Goel

I don't want my affiliate links popping up in SE's.

This happened to me and made me some good money for about a week. no idea how the link went into the top3 - after 7 days it was gone

skibbz · 04-15-2011, 06:15 AM

for sniper site I would say "no follow" links

dadamson · 04-15-2011, 06:17 AM

Yea, I would change these to nofollow.

I'm not sure if there is a way to change them to nofollow all at once in MEW3 but you can just copy/paste this inside all of your html links to change them to nofollow:

rel="nofollow"

I enter them here:

<a rel="nofollow" href="affiliatelink.com">affiliate anchor</a>

Cheers,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jane Newman

Just read this post and I'm amazed I've never read up on this before - I've got a couple of finance type sites which have unique content but I also include links to financial products and these links are all affiliate links.

Should I have these links as no follow ?

And is there a quick and simple way of making loads of links 'no follow' in Microsoft Expression Web 3, which is what I use to build my web sites and update them ?

... especially using the WYSIWYG feature as opposed to in the HTML view ?

Cheers in advance and my apologies for hi-jacking your post ...

anxjuz86 · 04-15-2011, 06:18 AM

I always use nofollow tag for every affiliate links that I promote so that your webpage rank is not going to shared with the affiliate link.

globalwebworks · 04-15-2011, 06:25 AM

Makes no difference, in the traditional way of thinking about these link attributes, however does make a difference in the new way of thinking about SEO.

Forget about the rel attribute being responsible for passing link juice around, rather think about it in the context of association, especially in terms of outbound links.

The valud of outbound links from your site are equally as important as the value of inbound (Backlinks) to your site. Google wants to know if you site ads value to their spiders by sending them to relevant pages so if the value of the content on on the affiliates landing page is high quality then drop the rel attribute. On the flip side if the value is low, use the rel attribute.

Spend more time worrying about the content on your website as opposed to technical details that are out of your control.

William
Time for an SEO paradigm shift

Jane Newman · 04-15-2011, 06:28 AM

Thanks for everyones help - all much appreciated !!!

Unfortunately, I've got 100's of affiliate links - what a headache altering them aye

Just out of curiosity, what is a sniper site ?

Sandor Benko · 08-07-2011, 10:41 AM

Google Sniper is a system for building mini-review sites using the Wordpress blogging platform. Once the sites are indexed you add affiliate links & make money. Competitive thing to do but will make you a SEO expert by the time you have 20-30 sites. Google "Google Sniper 2.0" (I don't have a sniper site for that, so this is not a promotion.

04-15-2011, 05:01 AM	#1
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globalwebworks Warrior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Palo Alto Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: DoFollow or NoFollow Affiliate Links? Makes no difference, in the traditional way of thinking about these link attributes, however does make a difference in the new way of thinking about SEO. Forget about the rel attribute being responsible for passing link juice around, rather think about it in the context of association, especially in terms of outbound links. The valud of outbound links from your site are equally as important as the value of inbound (Backlinks) to your site. Google wants to know if you site ads value to their spiders by sending them to relevant pages so if the value of the content on on the affiliates landing page is high quality then drop the rel attribute. On the flip side if the value is low, use the rel attribute. Spend more time worrying about the content on your website as opposed to technical details that are out of your control. William Time for an SEO paradigm shift

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Jane Newman Warrior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: North Wales \| UK Posts: 96 Thanks: 4 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Re: DoFollow or NoFollow Affiliate Links? Thanks for everyones help - all much appreciated !!! Unfortunately, I've got 100's of affiliate links - what a headache altering them aye Just out of curiosity, what is a sniper site ?
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Sandor Benko Sushi Warrior Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Japan Posts: 13 Thanks: 10 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: DoFollow or NoFollow Affiliate Links? Google Sniper is a system for building mini-review sites using the Wordpress blogging platform. Once the sites are indexed you add affiliate links & make money. Competitive thing to do but will make you a SEO expert by the time you have 20-30 sites. Google "Google Sniper 2.0" (I don't have a sniper site for that, so this is not a promotion.