Redirect Affiliate links and preserve page rank at the same time.
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Here's the problem:
Every time you link to an affiliate product, you send link juice to that page. You want to link to the affiliate page, so users can go there, but you don't want googlebot to see that and give link juice to someone else's page when you could save it for one of your pages.
A possible solution:
Link to a script that redirects regular users to the affiliate page, and googlebot back to one of your own pages via a 301 redirect. The result being that users go where you want them to, but google gives link juice to one of your own pages.
Complications:
One easy way to do this is with a user agent match. But a problem is that googlebots masquerade as regular browsers to make sure you aren't cloaking pages. I don't know if this would be detected as page cloaking or not.
Another way to do this might be to use the referrer tag. Anyone coming in to the link from your website would go to the affiliate link, but everyone else would be redirected to one of your other pages (your homepage, perhaps).
I believe googlebot tends to use a static referrer that identifies it as googlebot, but if that changes, then googlebot would be redirected to your affiliate link along with other users.
Anyway, just wanted to get your thoughts on this. Is it possible to do something like this safely?
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