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Originally Posted by Jdoughs
If its just you sending traffic then its not a big deal and obviously not causing any issues, if there is any affiliates its just not right to noindex the nats code, many webmasters work their nats code to rank for search terms.
I get emailed atleast once a month asking how and why my nats code (or another) is ranking or replacing the paysite root. Its not always because a webmaster has targeted the site name and taken the serp, sometimes its a side-effect of going after bigger terms and the affiliate code takes the spots by default for being a better linked to page.
At first look many program owners see their paysites listed with a referal link and assume that the traffic and search rank should be theirs, but there is a reason the affiliate link is there, it was worked to rank their.
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It is in my interest to actually track the sales back to the original traffic spot. I think I can make it work by dropping a cookie and if no new nats link code it used it should credit the sale back the the place that the traffic first came from.
Think or a mini review site that is buying traffic from google and yahoo and passing in different nats ids that in turn go out to the paysites that track under sub ids . I just do not want to kill the organic rankings by having multiple nats ids listed in google with the same exact content .