Will Google Count Affiliate Links As Backlinks??? Need Advice from SEO experts...

[AbdullahKaragoz]

Is this a good practice to putting the sales page on the same domain of my website a good practice?


I mean something like that:

"www.mywebsite.com/productname" instead of "www.productname.com"

When affiliates link to the salespage, they will link to mywebsite.com/productname,

And (in theory) the link juice will pass into the whole website, so that mywebsite.com will benefit from it in terms of SEO and better rankings.

Is this a good idea? Will this have good SEO effect? Or is this something that's just worthless?

Will Google count affiliate links as back links? Are affiliate links worth in terms of SEO?

And would affiliates just use nofollow tags when linking to affiliate sites on their blogs?

[AbdullahKaragoz]

No one knows anything about that?

[AbdullahKaragoz]

OK, I'll try last time.

Does anyone know anything about that?

Will Google count affiliate links as back links? Are affiliate links worth in terms of SEO?

Thanks

[Buyseech]

Hi there,

any do follow link pointing to a URL is considered a backlink whatever the source might be or the sources "intensions". The latter doesnt matter.

Yes they will be backlinks and yes PR will flow (if they are do follow). IF its a link or a banner it doesnt mind (they are the same).

Affiliate links are links like any others.

Regarding putting your product on a sub-page instead of its own domain...

I would make a seperate domain, putting emphasise on the brand (name). Unless you are one of those guys who repackage the same stuff over and over again and will have another product out in a month. But still I believe the separate domain is the key.

If you have a lot of linking just to a subpage and no linking to the main page, it will not look natural as well.

Hope this helped.

Sincerely, Buyseech

[paulgl]

The problem that people forget about affiliate links
is this.

Pages that have affiliate links are generally downgraded
by google. They don't necessarily hate affiliate links,
but think pages with affiliate links are lame, in google-speak.

So, whether they make them nofollow or not, (there is
no do follow) is a moot point. It's the value of the page.

Google may not index or like pages that have any affiliate
link. That's the tough part.

Nofollow is a moot point as well. Google does not cast a
blind eye on a nofollow link. Google readily sees it and
does whatever they wish with it.

Your affiliates that create good pages, and include your link,
will have a better chance of giving you juice.

Don't your affiliates need some sort of database code on the
link, such as domain.com/?=name

No matter, as google normally truncates the ?= when giving
credit for a link.

That is a tipoff that the link is an affiliate. Not all affiliates are
treated equal. Google probably see no difference in
people putting a bunch of amazon links on a page. But an
affiliate link on lesser known, get rich, ebook, whatever, is
probably just ignored.

Ignored neither helps nor hurts.

So it all depends on the value of the page the affiliate link is
on. But since affiliate links may downgrade a page, it's
like catch-22.

This may sound complicated, but you should have a different
site for affiliates, but 301 that page to your canonical url.

That is, domain.com/?=affiliatecode 301's to domain.com/package
All you have to do, is 301 the domain to the subpage. Or you could
do it the opposite way. domain.com/package?=affiliatecode redirects
to domain.com. domain.com/package 301's to the domain.
Carefully passing the id along, of course.

Paul