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Amazon Affiliate Question

by SladeK
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I feel stupid for having to ask this; but I recently made all of my Amazon affiliate links "no follow" after doing a little research and have noticed that my conversion has dropped to zero.

Before I made my links "no follow" I my traffic was converting at a reasonable percentage consistently. Is this just a coincidence?
#affiliate #amazon #question
  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    nofollow for links like that is a moot point. You are in effect
    building links for amazon, not yourself. Affiliate links are
    not normally thought of by google as something separated from
    the originating sites. Your best bet is to build links to pages
    that have amazon links on them. If you are just posting links
    all over the place to a specific product, thinking you will rank
    for that product (that is your affiliate link page on amazon) forget it.
    There's this little matter about that pesky little "?"

    You can rank, quite readily, for specific products on your own SEO'd pages.
    Or group of products.

    For external links, there really is hardly ever a reason to use
    nofollow, unless you just don't want to pass pagerank on.
    Amazon needs no such thing either way.

    Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Sojourn
    SladeK - I always "nofollow" my affiliate links, including Amazon. It's good practice SEO-wise, in my opinion, and just good practice in general to keep you mindful of nofollowing other outbound links on your site.

    It has nothing to do with your conversions. My conversions have been down now for this first full week of July, although traffic is up. I've made no changes other than to add content and have just operated under the assumption that the US holiday and summer vacations are playing with sales a bit right now.

    Visitors don't look to see if a link is nofollow or not before clicking on it and Amazon still tracks it just fine so you should be safe keeping your links nofollow.
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  • Profile picture of the author KirkMcD
    Unless you broke the link when you put the "rel=nofollow" in, it's probably just a coincidence.
    Have you since tested the links?
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