Are affiliate links backlinks?
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Just a quick question.
When you generate a new affiliate link on Clickbank, clickbank gives you something like sdpofjpsdfj843408543pospojdsf.whatever04.hop.click bank.com, then you just copy paste that on your website and if you make a sale, you get a commission
Now that we've got that right. Let's say I'm a vendor. And affiliates put affiliate links for my products on their website - they have a good anchor text, but the link is not www.mywebsiteorsalespage.com it's www.aclickbanklinkthatredirectsthemtomywebsiteorsa lespage.com right?
So my question is - is this a backlink, does Google even register a link that looks like sdofjksjdflj93kj4.hop.clickbank? and how is it viewed - is it viewed as just a link from clickbank (page rank whatever?), or a link from that particular website, is it dofollow, nofollow - and in general, will my page rank be effected if I have a lot of affiliates that point toward me with links, or will I only get the traffic and the search engines will ignore the links?
Thanks to all that reply, from a struggling but ready to win internet marketer,
Jack
Saul