Putting Nofollow tags on affiliate links?

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Hi guys. So im wondering if im losing linkjuice here by not adding nofollow tags to affiliate links. I have heard this could be the case and it really concerns me considering im going to have a ton of affiliate links on my site.

I put 2 product links per page of my site and the site has 30 pages. So thats 60 affiliate links, would I be losing some "link juice" here if I do not add the nofollow code to each of these links?
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanman
    It's always good to add no follow to all the aff links. When you don't it doesn't really help the search engines with anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
    Thanks but does it actually help your site rank better in search engines when you add the nofollow tag? Im confused as if this is really even true. Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author zeppb
      Originally Posted by coreytucker View Post

      Thanks but does it actually help your site rank better in search engines when you add the nofollow tag? Im confused as if this is really even true. Thanks
      Technically it would in a sense. Because you wont be leaking your PR to those affiliate links.
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  • Profile picture of the author write-stuff
    I don't have any hard info to back this up, but my guess that this "leaking" metaphor probably doesn't hold any water as far as SEO is concerned. I just can't see how a search engine would derate your own page because of extra outbound links. It's not like the spiders come in with a finite amount of "juice" and by leaking it to others, there's less left for you. If anyone has any real information on how nofollow links help retain your own page rank, I'd sure like to hear about it. My suspicion is that's it's just urban legend.
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  • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
    well I have heard that "putting a cap" on all most outbound links in your site helps. But im wondering if putting nofollow code on all my links is wise or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author coreytucker
    If I do a php redirect to my affiliate links do I even need to put the nofollow tag? I did a php redirect with my CB affiliate links.

    But the links to my product actually link to a page on my website that actually redirects to my affilates page. So do I even need nofollow since im doing this?
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    • Profile picture of the author skydivedad
      Corey
      I was extremely pleased to read write-stuff's reply. Thank You

      Good Grief! Another SEO Myth that confuses IM'ers everywhere. You can not gain any advantage by using "rel='nofollow" in this situation. Generally speaking the more pages you get into the Main Index's the better your site will perform in its query space so why would you want them "No follow"?. Sites have legitimate reasons for using the "nofollow" attribute. You haven't presented one.

      Toolbar PageRank is meaningless. Internal PageRank now that's an important consideration and is one of 200 or so variables used by the major search engines when delivering a query result page. Internal PageRank is not a number between 0 and 10 it's a number between 0 and 1. None of the search engines publish this number for any site.

      Is this number updated every time your site is spidered? Every 30 Days? 60 Days? Every year? You have no way of knowing what that number is or when it changes, so you have zero data and neither does anyone else. It's a fallacy! Sites pass their "rank" regardless of what they do. You can't set up a "no follow" barrier and tell the Search Engines "Don't pass my PageRank to other sites"! Even if you could it would only serve to reduce your sites ability to present more relevancy to the search engines and why would a marketer want to do that? If you want to do something productive build your internal navigation properly because "Internal PageRank" flows within your site as well so you might as well take advantage of that fact.

      Until you know how to measure Internal PageRank why worry about how to manipulate it.
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