Affiliate Links Hurt Your SEO?

SEOWizard417

10 years ago

Don't need a plugin to add no follow tags to links...

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counzila 10 years ago

Originally Posted by SEOWizard417

Don't need a plugin to add no follow tags to links...

Ok so whats your opnion?
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huffdoggie

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Webn1110

Matt cutts said that affiliate links in the WordPress post content give a negative impact

Affiliate links don't affect SEO, as long as they're used modestly. Based on my personal experience.

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a2hosting

10 years ago

This is from 2012, but Matt Cutt says if you're worried about it, go ahead and add a no follow -

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rankingspecialist

10 years ago

When you provide quality content, and genuine comments it doesn't affect it especially if the link is relevant to the discussion. Of course if its other people posting them to your blog, I think its smart for you to moderate your comments anyways to keep the spammers out. You only want quality comments of real people who actually have something valuable to talk about. This will help your site keep its visitors and contribute with their own valuable comment which will also help you rank higher since people like your site in the eyes of Google.

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godoveryou

10 years ago

Originally Posted by rankingspecialist

When you provide quality content, and genuine comments it doesn't affect it especially if the link is relevant to the discussion. Of course if its other people posting them to your blog, I think its smart for you to moderate your comments anyways to keep the spammers out. You only want quality comments of real people who actually have something valuable to talk about. This will help your site keep its visitors and contribute with their own valuable comment which will also help you rank higher since people like your site in the eyes of Google.

^WTF does this have to do with anything?

Anyways - on to the real question...

Nofollow anything related to advertising. Anything at all.

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Tim Alwell 10 years ago

Originally Posted by godoveryou

^WTF does this have to do with anything?

Anyways - on to the real question...

Nofollow anything related to advertising. Anything at all.

LOL.

I use pretty link lite plugin to smokescreen my affiliate links.
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Val22

10 years ago

Use nofollow or redirect the links to target sites from specific pages on your site and you're good to go...

Simple SEO strategy... Don't ever dofollow affiliate links or risk harming your site rankings

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jony1

10 years ago

No i don't think so........affiliate link don't effect your SEO.

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dhee

10 years ago

You can use a plugin like pretty link which can turn long affiliate links into small and good looking links, and this way no need to worry about seo also.

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TheAdsenseGuy 10 years ago

Originally Posted by dhee

You can use a plugin like pretty link which can turn long affiliate links into small and good looking links, and this way no need to worry about seo also.

The pretty links plugin does NOT cloak your Aff links. Google bot can still follow it.

Yes, based on my experience you will get penalized if you use any of the big affiliate programs: Amazon, clickbank and commission junction. Sometimes the penalty happens right away, sometimes it takes up to 2 months. Then you get your penalty.

Google has publicly stated many times they see affiliate sites as spammy sites.

Having said that, if you have a 20 page site and only 5 of those pages have aff links on it you might be ok. But if most of your pages have aff links your going to get burned.

This is the only plugin that I tested that will actually hide your aff links:
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ed-google.html
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npoint

10 years ago

I heard about it too, but I am not sure it is about do follow or nofollow , it is probably about affiliate links generally. Google doesn`t like weak content sites with a lot of affiliate links.

Affiliate links is one of the factors which lowering your chances for getting long term results in Google, they hates it and it is not something new. If more you have them on your website the worse and of course if they are dofollow you additionaly decrease the strenght of your wbsite cos each outoing dofollow backlink is another factor which infulence on ranks.

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rrs007

10 years ago

Its always a wise thing to cloak your affiliate links , doesn't matter what matt cutts or anyone else says. Affiliate links are usually very long or ugly so cloaking also makes them looks prettier , people usually hesitate to click on ugly looking suspicious links.

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paulgl

10 years ago

Originally Posted by rrs007

Its always a wise thing to cloak your affiliate links , doesn't matter what matt cutts or anyone else says. Affiliate links are usually very long or ugly so cloaking also makes them looks prettier , people usually hesitate to click on ugly looking suspicious links.

Sure. That's why amazon gets no business. All of their internal linking, and outside
linking, is just ugly.

SEO by pretty links. Man what's next?

Of course nobody would ever click on a link from yahoo's front page, or

LOL! Nobody ever clicks on a link in google search, right? That friggin url
is just hideous!

I would imagine the average person does not even look, nor care, what the friggin
url is.

Nofollow has nothing to do with anything here.

Either affiliate links make you money or they don't. If they do, screw
what anyone says. If they don't, then stop doing stupid affiliates. Period.

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misshang

10 years ago

I think what hurts your seo are duplicate content if you copy and paste directly from salespage, which many do; and link juice, if you link to many different pages.

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TotalWebsiteControl

10 years ago

I agree with paul. The average joe doesn't know anything about seo. They don't care what the links look like... they just click'em

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K1

10 years ago

From what I understand I don't think Google likes affiliate links,they're thought is why don't you go directly to the site if you want to buy it. They have always had a hatred for affiliate links, although they did try to CPA with adwords a few years back which didn't work out too well.

They consider Affiliate sites, as sites that don't bring real value to uses, in my opinion.

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Rank Watch

10 years ago

Adding nofollow to the affiliate links is the best possible step you can take.

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nikoldas 10 years ago

I think affiliate links does not hurts SEO.. but How we know which link are affiliate.. some time its miss.
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manishak

10 years ago

I haven't had any problem with affiliate links. My traffic is same and I continue to get same sales.

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skandy85

10 years ago

Yep. I use pretty links and it words fine. There is a box to tick to make it a no follow.

Seems to work fine on my site. Then again I only use one or two affiliate links per post.

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akmaliskandar94

10 years ago

affiliate does not affect your SEO

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johnben1444

10 years ago

You don't have to believe everything Matts says, he is just paid to talk and not to come up with real facts.

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counzila

10 years ago

yes affi. links does not effect SEO but King Google hate Aff links so need to fix that so i hope clocking ok but now king google found a way to find you.. that way not work anymore.. so then what are other option,,,we have few options left...hey,, anyone know what are those secrets