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Quick Redirect Questions..

by Intrepreneur
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Would it be bad for SEO for me to use many redirects on my site either uisng pages or by using .htaccess, One thing about SEO I'm not sure of, I will need to have around 70 redirects..

Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author simonLC
    Intrepreneur,

    It isn't 'bad' if the intention isn't malicious.

    301 redirects, are the norm - especially when upgrading or changing a site from one platform to another. It helps the Engines to know where the content has relocated to, the next time they crawl the page.
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    • Profile picture of the author Intrepreneur
      Originally Posted by simonLC View Post

      Intrepreneur,

      It isn't 'bad' if the intention isn't malicious.

      301 redirects, are the norm - especially when upgrading or changing a site from one platform to another. It helps the Engines to know where the content has relocated to, the next time they crawl the page.
      This doesn't really answer my question, these will be links pointing to external sites, I wish to know if they would be better as plain affiliate links or for me to .htaccess redirect them?

      I don't like ugly looking aff links you see.
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      • Profile picture of the author dannycapri
        If its an affiliate site, Google recommends not have a 'thin' affiliate site, with little original content:
        Little or no original content - Webmasters/Site owners Help

        There are several reasons to cloak/hide affiliate links, by redirecting the affiliate links using htaccess (and this should not affect your SERP's):
        * You don't want Google to know you are an affiliate.
        * You don't want visitors to your site to be put off clicking on your ugly links, or worse still identifying it's an affiliate link, so instead of using your link, go via their own link.
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