Do Affiliate Links Count As Backlinks?

by Sheryl Polomka

Posted: 17 years ago 9 replies

If I'm trying to build backlinks to my website that sells a product, is it best to link directly to the main url of the site or can I use an affiliate link?

Do affiliate links count as backlinks?

I have just started a new blog which is related to the niche of my product and so I'm just wondering whether to put my affiliate link when I link to the product or the main url for my product?

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Kevin_Hutto 17 years ago

Yes, affiliate links do count.
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radhika 17 years ago

Recently one of the affiliate management software vendor released a module that creates affiliates links static and search engine friendly. So I guess it would be worth to have links like http;//www.yoursite.com/affid/xxx , yoursite.copm gets backlinks.

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Sheryl Polomka 17 years ago

Yes I realise it is backlinks pointing into your site. I have a blog that is related to the niche of my site but is a completely different url to my site. I will be linking to my product site from my blog.

So I'm building backlinks to my product website coming from my blog.

So if they do count as backlinks then I will use my affiliate link as I don't want my referred % to be low if I make all the sales from the direct url.
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Sheryl Polomka 17 years ago

Ok, thanks Kevin and Radhika
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onera 17 years ago

That's how AdultFriendFinders became so popular. In the old days (probably even today but I am out of Adult Site Business so I don't know the scenario in that niche), their affiliates were spamming all over the web and the NNTP newsgroups.
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- snvservices 17 years ago
  
  hi,
  
  See, what happens affiliate links are scripted links so if you are linking that links to your blog then it will not be count as a backlink but on the other side if you are linking to your blog by direct link that is the URL of the site then it will count as a backlink.
  
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Sheryl Polomka

17 years ago

Oh, so you're saying they don't count as backlinks?

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snvservices

17 years ago

See, if you are having direct link of your URL then it will count as a Backlink not affiliate link.

As, affiliate links are javascripted or Phpscripted, so Google Crawler dont read such URLs that is why it will not count as backlink.

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