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Affiliate link redirection and SEO

by Etienne
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I have my products on Plimus and Clickbank and am now switching to use mostly e-junkie shopping cart to track affiliates. Something I realized recently is that all these affiliate tracking systems use 302 redirection, which means that any affiliate link doesn't help me for SEO at all. For various affiliates on the Internet who promote my stuff in exchange for money, that's fine. However, when I want to put a link on my friend's website and give him commission in exchange, that doesn't work. I would be better simply exchange direct links.

My question is... is there a way to have links help my SEO while also giving people a commission?
#affiliate #link #redirection #seo
  • Profile picture of the author D Baker
    Good question... I would also like to find out more about this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Etienne
    What I will do is link exchange with relevant websites. I'll put some links on the footer of my home page and they'll do the same. I'll do that for relevant websites I support who have an Alexa ranking below 1000000. If they publish my product to their mailing list, however, they will use the affiliate link.

    I also had another idea. Affiliate links don't give SEO benefits because they do a 302 redirection (and thus the shopping cart system gets the SEO benefit?). What happens if people arrive to an url that looks like this
    shamanicseduction.com/?p=kH3p
    From there I would do a 302 redirect to the affiliate link which would do another 302 back to my website. I would have an internal TinyUrl system in some way. What would happen?

    The affiliate would have the choice of using non-SEO friendly URL or cloacking it in a SEO-friendly way. If he wants to bring traffic through search engines to make referal money, he would obviously use the non-SEO friendly link. If he wants to support my brand and business, he would use the link pointing directly to my website.

    What would be the impact of this? Would it work?
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