Hiding Affiliate Links

mat · Dec 5, 2007

What are the best methods to hide affiliate links and also the best for Search engines. I think Google doesnt like outgoing affiliate links?

Thanks,

Mat

ScottJ · Dec 5, 2007

I would presume javascript would hide them from the spiders/Google?
Not sure, wil be doing a few aff sites over the coming months so it's something I will have to read up on as well.

Mos popular method seems to be using htaccess.

mat · Dec 5, 2007

Ye there seems to be alot of methods about!

I want to hide the affiliate link from both users and search engines....

Thanks

jwm · Dec 5, 2007

Guys

Paul suggested a way to do this in another thread which may help. Link is

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/domain-appraisals-website-reviews/12689-website-review-please-www-getquotes-co-uk.html

mat · Dec 5, 2007

Just what I needed!!

Rep added to you and creator...

All working on the latest site, just seems now im going to have to add this to all the sites

retired_member3 · Dec 6, 2007

Is it worth the effort? i.e. if you have an affiliate site already done, would you expect to see an improvement by changing it?

mat · Dec 6, 2007

I would say so, it will certainly help with the SE's and it gives a more professional and clickable look to your users!

retired_member3 · Dec 6, 2007

If it helps with the se's i'll give it a go but for users will onmouseover not suffice?

accelerator · Dec 6, 2007

http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/08/09/link-cloaking-the-why-the-where-the-how/

Rgds

Accelerator

bensd · Dec 7, 2007

I know se will penalise you for having aff links. Would the following method work?

Point affilliate link 1 to: /partners/link1.html

link1.html:

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.afilliate1.com">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Would this method work just as well?

-Ben

paul · Dec 7, 2007

bensd said:
I know se will penalise you for having aff links. Would the following method work?

Point affilliate link 1 to: /partners/link1.html

link1.html:

Code:

<html> <head> <title></title> <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.afilliate1.com"> </head> <body> </body> </html>

Would this method work just as well?

-Ben

Bad idea

bensd · Dec 8, 2007

paul said:
Bad idea

why???????

uglygit · Dec 29, 2007

Guys,

Just wondering if Pauls htaccess method will work on hiding text link adds as well , was thinking of putting these people http://tnx.net on my site.

retired_member3 · Dec 29, 2007

I'm using 301 redirects for my affiliate links.

retired_member3 · Jan 3, 2008

Is there an easy way to hide affiliate links if your using a datafeed file? I have some which run off csv files but obviously dont want to setup a htaccess file with 30,000 redirects.

uglygit · Jan 7, 2008

Hammer,

Are you taking about importing feeds into affilistore? If so have a gander over here (towards the bottom).

http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/...070-product-feeds-html-javascript-iframe.html

I've just started using affilistore and I'm stuck on this option in import datafeed

'Add a URL prefix to Affiliate Product Link?' - I don't know if its this bit that does the hiding? And whether to use xyz.com as my url prefix.