Affiliate links DO crush rankings
- SEO |
I have a 4 month old site and it ranks quite well for competitive key phrases already.
However, as soon as I add posts with affiliate links in, those posts rank considerably worse than other articles - they fail to even rank for very low competitive key phrases. But, other articles that don't have affiliate links in continue to rank well in google.
Do you guys have any ideas why this could be?!
I can only assume this is because my site is 'new', so those pages are under more scrutiny by google? If so, when will Google start giving me full ranking ability for my affiliate articles?
Details:
I use standard affiliate links (track.companyname/hit.php?w=etc), I nofollow each of the links and place no more than 1 link for every 100 words.
All thoughts on why this is happening would be appreciated!
However, as soon as I add posts with affiliate links in, those posts rank considerably worse than other articles - they fail to even rank for very low competitive key phrases. But, other articles that don't have affiliate links in continue to rank well in google.
Do you guys have any ideas why this could be?!
I can only assume this is because my site is 'new', so those pages are under more scrutiny by google? If so, when will Google start giving me full ranking ability for my affiliate articles?
Details:
I use standard affiliate links (track.companyname/hit.php?w=etc), I nofollow each of the links and place no more than 1 link for every 100 words.
All thoughts on why this is happening would be appreciated!