Originally Posted by AdultKing

The best thing to do with links is to use your own generated shortlinks and have them set as nofollow, two reasons for this. One Google wont readily see your site as a thin site, meaning if a site just has links to affiliate sponsors then Google will see your site as a thin affiliate and this may affect your ranking. Secondly by using shortlinks, if a sponsor dies, or stops paying, then you only need to edit one shortlink entry to redirect all that traffic elsewhere. One edit is better then dozens, hundreds or thousands if you lose a sponsor.