Bloggers.. Hide affiliate links or not?

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  • SpicyM
    Confirmed User
    • Aug 2006
    • 4575
    #16
    Originally posted by Colmike7
    To those arguing about cloaking and G:

    "The original version of affiliate link cloaking involved hiding your links from Google and other search engines. This was based on the theory that Google would penalize web sites which used affiliate links. What Google actually says is that they don?t want to see affiliate links without substantial content included together with it.
    Regular product websites and blogs are fine, but if I were to set up a page which showed just the affiliate link with some very light content however, or worse, scraped content, then it would not do well in the SERPs.

    Because of this issue, many people started to cloak their affiliate links by giving the Google bot one version of a link and human visitors another version. The thing is, Google?s engineers aren?t stupid and they learned how to detect this. It is this kind of link cloaking which they specifically frown upon and which will get you sandboxed or de-indexed."

    So if I use a link to a directory (site name) with 301 redirect to the affiliate link inside the directory, is it bad or not??
    no sig, sorry

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      • porno jew
        Too lazy to set a custom title
        • Nov 2006
        • 10166
        #17
        thank you. i discovered the same from my testing but this just confirms my theory based from experience.

        Originally posted by Colmike7
        To those arguing about cloaking and G:

        "The original version of affiliate link cloaking involved hiding your links from Google and other search engines. This was based on the theory that Google would penalize web sites which used affiliate links. What Google actually says is that they don?t want to see affiliate links without substantial content included together with it.
        Regular product websites and blogs are fine, but if I were to set up a page which showed just the affiliate link with some very light content however, or worse, scraped content, then it would not do well in the SERPs.

        Because of this issue, many people started to cloak their affiliate links by giving the Google bot one version of a link and human visitors another version. The thing is, Google?s engineers aren?t stupid and they learned how to detect this. It is this kind of link cloaking which they specifically frown upon and which will get you sandboxed or de-indexed."

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          • LouiseLloyd
            SO FUCKING SCAMMED
            • Mar 2010
            • 1429
            #18
            Originally posted by tonyparra
            explain that please
            Sorry for the delay in replying...

            Create a wordpress page eg. link - www.your---blog.com/link/

            Then create a new page for your affiliate link, with the wordpress seo plugin and use the 301 redirect feature with the above 'link' page as the parent page eg. www.your---blog.com/link/affiliate-site/

            Then add "Disallow: /link/" to your robots.txt
            Last edited by LouiseLloyd; 03-24-2012, 11:14 AM.

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