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Can this hurt my SEO?

by David C.
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Hi guys:

I have a bunch of ClickBank affiliates who are promoting my guide with bad quality content. They have links that go to a subdomain of my main site (for instance mysite/clickbank). Being that it's bad quality content linking to my site, can it hurt the ranking of my main site (which is far more important and profitable to me then the clickbank site)?

thanks!

-David
#hurt #seo
  • Profile picture of the author PROmotions LLC
    I would say so it's possible. If they are such bad quality I would recommend the affiliates to not use such bad content.
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    • Profile picture of the author PotPieGirl
      It really depends. Thing is, most sales pages aren't built for SEO/organic rankings. While we want to rank for the product name, we really are building for referral/"people" traffic. Overall, we want a page that converts both for us, the vendor, and for affiliates.

      But, once you get affiliates - especially Clickbank affiliates - the crap that points to your site gets HORRIBLE. Not much you can do about it except to have a 'whitelist' only affiliate program via CB where affiliates have to be approved by you in order to promote.

      If your product name is unique, you'll still probably rank just fine for that name anyway. Now, if you're worried about ranking for keywords (like one would do with a niche site or something), you might run into issues.

      Just my 2 cents -

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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    Originally Posted by David C. View Post

    Hi guys:

    I have a bunch of ClickBank affiliates who are promoting my guide with bad quality content. They have links that go to a subdomain of my main site (for instance mysite/clickbank). Being that it's bad quality content linking to my site, can it hurt the ranking of my main site (which is far more important and profitable to me then the clickbank site)?

    thanks!

    -David
    The bigger problem is it hurts your credibility.
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  • Profile picture of the author dudeco
    YES, it can. Much has been made about linking to "bad neighborhoods", and that is straight from the mouth of Matt Cutts, Google's head of the search quality team. Incoming links from bad neighborhoods can have negative SEO effects but to much lesser degree and it must be heinous. You should/can consider suspending those accounts as it isn't too hard to learn who id doing it... especially if they are not yielding any fruits for you.

    Here is a good video of Cutts talking about what Google has in store for SEO in the next few months ahead... What to expect in SEO in the coming months

    I know Cutts did a video (I watched it a few months ago) about inbound links from bad neighborhoods. It was a Youtube vid if memory serves. That is the one you're going to want to find.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hansons
    No, it won't affect.. sub-domains are treated as new domains..

    On other hand, it would give more popularity to your main domain name.. so you are getting the benefit.

    Think of some authority sites, social networking sites, with some sites, profiles are created on subdomains and they may be anything, there is no gurantee that they are 100% good, unique and qualitative..

    If you are creating profile with hubpages then it would also be on sub domain I think like .... yourusername.hubpages.com
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Dump the crappy affiliates. Done.
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