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Originally Posted by pornguy
Funny that you talk about this. Epic Cash is in the process of working on the SE aspects of our sites. the tricky part is that there are so many tours.
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one thing that i see alot is the affiliate links are going to a central domain... where in the link is the affiliate ID, and then the site ID.. and the script then redirects to the right domain.
one major SEO factor is the backlinking... so a website like epicbooty.com's affilaite links will help with the backlinking points for google pagerank.
(noticed that home page of epicbooty.com doesn't have meta tags, but that's probalby what you will be addressing soon... and part of the point of this thread is to bring attention to this marketing error i see on many paysites).
Other sites that link to a common domain, will not get the backlinking benefits and to a Search Engine, the paysite will look like an orphan with no linking relationships.
Some affiliates will use internal redirection, where instead of linking to the paysite, they redirect internally. This is usually done to track clicks on their side.. but can also be done to not benefit the paysite.. since backlinks from the affiliate link helps the paysite.
Where this strategy might backfire on the affiliate, is now their site doesn't show any external linking relationships.. which is also a factor in SE ranking.
So for those programs that do have affiliate links to the paysite, and are doing good SEO things like meta tags, you could be benefitting from some SE traffic.
Fight the redirection!