Does Affiliate Links Have Effect on Ranking?

by Adie
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Last several months, one of my sites promoting CPA products was playing on 4th to 6th position. The site have more than 100 articles with the same amount of links pointing to CPA offers (not hidden).

I spent 1 day to mask all affiliate links and saw my ranking dropped to it's lowest, not even on 200th position. I waited 2 to 3 months but the highest it got was number 15 for the main keyword and some page 3 to 5 for other secondary keywords. It seems it's pretty difficult to bring it back to it's previous place. I did not change everything except that - I only redirect the affiliate links using the jump.php script.

Does affiliate links have effect on ranking? Does Google hate or love it?
#affiliate #effect #links #ranking
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    Affiliate links have no bearing at all on your ranking. Your internal and external SEO are what Google's bots and algorithms are looking at.

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