How Many Affiliate Links are Too Many?

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Hi Warriors,

I have a website in the alternative health niche. It is of relatively high quality.

It has adsense ads and affiliate links on most to nearly all of the pages.

The adsense ads run down a sidebar, with one other within the middle of the page within the main content.

The affiliate links mainly appear as a list of products at the bottom of a page after an article. Each product having 4 links. Some pages have up to 15 products and 60 affiliate links. Some have other text content affiliate links.

I have made all affiliate links nofollow.

Is this too many?

Some people say too many outbound links is bad seo. Especially affiliate links. It will spread the link juice too much and result in lower rankings.

Some say having too many affiliate links will get you pandalized.

If my page is showing mainly original useful content and the ads and affiliate links are not over bearing the page content intent, why would it matter how many products or outbound links are featured, especially when those products and links are also all helpful in one way or another to the problem being discussed in the main theme content of that page?

I would have thought that is a helpful way to organize a page?

I would have thought that is what Google likes?

Is there a cut off margin according to the algorithm bot that says this page has too many affiliate links or ads (do they get treated the same way?) and do those links pass juice or weight even if they are nofollow?

I don't really understand affiliate links fully.. Can you guys please help me out a bit if you can?

Thanks a lot.
#ads #affiliate #links #outbound links #too many
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Only you can know how many affiliate links is too many be tracking clicks. Keep the winners, dump the losers.

    Also, a page doesn't lose PR from outbound links, the pages the outbound links are pointing at are the pages with diluted PR, which doesn't matter in your case because they're affiliate links.
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    • Profile picture of the author RedWaterDub
      Thanks Yukon,

      But I meant, how many affiliate links are too many according to google.. not me. I have never used affiliate links before in quantity so I have no idea for me. I like the look of my product lists but do the search engines or will they think it is a doorway page even tho it isn't?

      Do outbound links pass juice if they are nofollow? I assume not but hell, anything's possible.

      I have other outbound links that are not affiliate links and also dofollow, so they would be diluting my PR, is that true? for example...such as a link to wikipedia using a similar anchor text to one I might like to be ranking for...
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  • Profile picture of the author willjake
    If you post to many affiliate links on your sites its very likely for Google to mistake it as spam, even though your site has relevant content. I know of some affiliate marketers who have tried this and their PR was lowered.
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    • Profile picture of the author wilsonbar
      the google limit for linking page is 100 ... you post your 100 links per page and if you exceed the 100 number then your onpage seo score will be down .........
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      • Profile picture of the author RedWaterDub
        100 links you say.. is that outbound links or is that inbound ones too?

        do adsense ads count in this?
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