What is the negative effect of getting affiliate links to your domain?
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Are the negative effects of affiliate links to your domain bigger than the positive effects? Is it better to use a subdomain for your affiliate campaigns? (Because of linkprofile no follow links or time on page effects?) Thanks for responce!
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Sandip it sounds like you are providing advice for an affiliate. JB85 is asking about affiliate links because he is a merchant.
JB85 are you going to go through an affiliate network like Commission Junction, Shareasale, Linkshare, Google Affiliate Network.... or are you going to have the links go directly to your site via some internal affiliate management system or script?
If you go through a major network you don't have to worry about it. The links go through the network's URL first and do not pass pagerank.
If you have the links go directly to your site you should not try to get pagerank through them. Add a rel nofollow tag to the text you provide affilaites, and state that the links must be nofollowed in your terms. It may seem like a good idea to use "naked links" but it would be short-term gain and long-term loss for any eCommerce business hoping to generate organic search revenue in the coming years.
Good luck!
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Thank you very much Sandip. What is à normal percentage of your linkprofile? What are you accepting for your company or clients?
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Let me clear the doubt that Google is not against affiliate links and sites. Affiliate sites are very much part of the web ecosystem. But I am referring only good quality affiliate sites here and not thin one. For say, if your website contains only affiliate links, I think this is going to create a major issue. So if your website contains some affiliate links, I do not it is going to harm your website in one way or the other. Just make sure that your website is awesome and there will be no such issues if you try to monetize your website by placing some affiliate links.
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