SEO and Amazon Associate

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I'm building a site very slowly. It's in the education sector and currently has 9 pages. I'm aiming for a grand total of about 200. I'm ranking decently (5-10) for the keywords I am targetting.

I was just approved for the Amazon associate program. If I put affiliate links to Amazon on my site, will that have negative effects in the SERPs? I've heard people claim it will, while others claim it won't.
#search engine optimization #amazon #associate #seo
  • If you are going to sell Amazon products you will have to have some links somewhere. I would suggest that when you do put links in they should be "nofollow". In my case I have found that natural links within my posts do better than any other type of links or banners.

    I don't really think that affiliate links that are nofollow will hurt but I am not an expert.
  • You should not have a problem - better to place the links as nofollow - just don't spam your pages with links all over the place. We use Amazon quite a lot and do not see any major problems with using their affiliate scheme on our pages for some of our sites.

    GOOD LUCK
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    • Hi,

      Is there a blog or post here which can encourage Amazon Associates to list products being sold on Amazon?

      Thanks
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    I never add the nofollow thing to my affiliate links, also don't see a single reason why I should. The reasons that people come up with are mostly based on pure nonsense/guessing.
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    • While Google surely treats them as affiliate links, I can only assume that each post (review) will be leaking away from some of PR. There's no harm installing the "auto nofollow" plugin on Wordpress. I use that, and get every link nofollow'd.
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  • Overthinking it. Would your average joe with a "real" website be adding nofollow to ANYTHING on his page?
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    SEO and Amazon Associate

    I'm building a site very slowly. It's in the education sector and currently has 9 pages. I'm aiming for a grand total of about 200. I'm ranking decently (5-10) for the keywords I am targetting. I was just approved for the Amazon associate program. If I put affiliate links to Amazon on my site, will that have negative effects in the SERPs? I've heard people claim it will, while others claim it won't.