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Cloak or nofollow?

by Neville Pettersson
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I recently received a recommendation from an SEO company to use cloaking on my affiliate links. I currently use the nofollow attribute.

I'm pretty sure Goggle doesn't like cloaking (sneaky redirects)?

What do you other warriors think?
#cloak #nofollow
  • Profile picture of the author smitholivia
    Cloaking is a black hat techniques and if google will find cloaking in your site.Google might penalise your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author rajivwebads
      Cloaking is an unethical way of optimization which comes Black Hat Techniques,if Cloaking is found in your website the Search Engines may penalize your website for this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mantasmo
    There's absolutely no reason to cloak the links. Honestly.

    Nofollowing them simply makes most of the PR juice disappear, that's it.
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  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    If you don't want the ugly affiliate URLs you could set up redirects from your domain instead. I'd say no to cloaking. No point in doing anything that could be considered suspicious. NoFollow is fine though.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasono
    Then goodluck getting penalized is much more painful than getting traffic. But seriously, don't cloak your links.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnnys229
    People are mistaking the original term cloaking (showing a different page to the search engine than to a user) vs link redirects. I use "cloaked" (read: redirected) links because they look nicer and I can track their stats in detail. I also nofollow them. So your answer is, do both.
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  • Profile picture of the author mkjohn
    Yes redirecting a link to another website is called is called cloaking. It is not according to google quality guidelines. Google can take action against those who use this types of seo method for their website.
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  • Profile picture of the author footballbob06
    How do you setup these redirects? Is there a wordpress plugin that will do this? I just don't want to get slapped by google.
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  • Profile picture of the author hilarious89
    No-follow attribute is legal on google's eye but chocking is illegal. So think you should avoid link chocking.
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  • Profile picture of the author lovboa
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    Take it as a sign that you shouldn't hire them.
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