12 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}
12 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}

Reducing affiliate links by placing tags around whole blocks of text, anyone does this?

by nik0 Banned
9 replies
Instead of inserting affiliate links here and there I just decided why not surround a whole block of content with <a href=""></a> tags.

Actually not a whole block but as I use H2 titles followed by an image right away I hyperlinked both of them at once.

Always better then having 2 affiliate links right (especially when it concerns a top 5 list, as then it would add up quickly).

Anyone doing this?
#affiliate #blocks #links #placing #reducing #tags #text
  • Profile picture of the author master reseller
    So you hyperlinked an entire paragraph? I haven't tried this method as whenever I want someone to visit a link, I'm very obvious about my request they click, rather than just dropping links in context of an article. I'm just wondering how the blog readers will take an entire paragraph being hyperlinked in this way. Though maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9379307].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author AffGuides
    This is common practice with PPV and popup advertising, but...

    I can't imagine Google would like this.
    Signature
    Free CPA Affiliate Marketing Guide - Step-by-Step Hand Held Approach, Lander and Ad Templates, Real Case Studies! Get a Free Preview. Click Here!
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9379314].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    Linking a whole paragraph or blocks of text is improper and will affect the user experience of your website. Although I'm not advocating this strategy, you can use an image instead that contains the text you want to hyperlink and then link the image to wherever on the web you want to link it to.
    Signature
    ONE HOUR INDEXING - STOP WASTING MONEY ON LINKS GOOGLE NEVER FINDS
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9380685].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author teeowl
    the almighty google would not like that
    Signature

    2015 - my year of breakthrough!

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9380833].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author howtogurus
    Google specifically says not to do this and you will be penalized. At the least this would get you hit with the Link Spam penalty for having too much text in the link. A short sentence is what you are looking for. If you are worried about link redundancy make sure you are using the rel="nofollow" attribute on your links. You should be anyway for affiliate links as Google frowns upon passing PR through those links.
    Signature

    George
    Check Out My New YouTube Blog

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9381190].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
    Banned
    Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

    Anyone doing this?
    Not I.

    I admit I have little interest in search engine traffic, and comparatively little use for it, but I'm not deliberately going to antagonize Google.

    .
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9381200].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author gabibeowulf
    If you care about Google not detecting your affiliate link, you can mark the text or image with a <div> element and add
    onclick="location.href='http://www.example.com';"

    You could also hide that line using jquery and only add the links when the document has loaded. So, visitors would still see clickable links but Googlebot would not.

    Don't think it will make too much of a difference.. but hey, since you want to test it out, you can try it
    Signature
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9381214].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Stevie C
    Dennis,

    Have you taken a look at this plugin?

    http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-websites.html

    I finally purchased a couple of days back but am waiting on the imminent updated version before testing it on my sites [he mentions this in the second from last post in the thread]

    Steve
    Signature

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9381880].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author nik0
      Banned
      Thanks guys, a lot more responses then I expected and I had no idea Google ever said something against that.

      Special thanks to Steve, that plugin looks pretty awesome, no link present in the source code at all. I love it!

      FYI: I previously used a plugin that cloaks affiliate links based on user agent, so when visitors visit the site they see the links and when Google is detected it shows no links whatsoever, however that didn't work at all. Guess Google is a lot smarter then that cause later on when I did REMOVE the affiliate links manually my pages finally started to rank.
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[9382158].message }}

Trending Topics