NastyDollars, are they the first to start jacking affiliates link power?

Just to play devil's advocate, let's pretend you own a site called SockSuckers.com, and you start an affiliate program. You have had the site for years, and your search engine positioning is very good. In fact, any time someone types in socksucking or sock suckers or sock sucking, you come up number one.

Fine, but I can´t see the relation to the canonical tag.



You are always on risk to lose SEO positions. It´s not a matter of accepting affiliates.



Using the canonical tag does not help so far. That tag simply cuts off the aff code from your URL. It does not prevent your affiliates using your keywords and get better SEO listings.



Your URL will never send any sales to a competitor. If I´m using my own site and URL with those metatags and keywords, the canonical tag won´t help.



I don´t think so. The tag only works on your own URL and cuts off the aff_id. So if I´m using metatgs and keywords for my own URL, you can´t stop me getting traffic for those keywords. The tag only works if I get your URL with my aff_id listed.

"Can this link tag be used to suggest a canonical URL on a completely different domain?
No. To migrate to a completely different domain, permanent (301) redirects are more appropriate. Google currently will take canonicalization suggestions into account across subdomains (or within a domain), but not across domains. So site owners can suggest www.example.com vs. example.com vs. help.example.com, but not example.com vs. example-widgets.com."

Click around through some Nasty Dollars sites, or really, if you want to see the EFFECT that it has, SEARCH some nasty dollar sites at google.

Notice one thing, there isn't a hint of referral codes anywhere. For example, I searched their new site "hot bush" out and the paysite is 1st and 2nd. Cool enough, click the 'more results' . There is little if any affiliate links in there, and you would think, with thousands of us pointing link power at it, that there would be some.

Well, not any more. If you click through to one of those results and view source you can see the meta below, that tells google that ALL variations of that page are just copies, or lesser versions of the 'main page'. In this case, its the actual page of the site (that we can link to) but without any ref codes.

So what this does is tell them that all variations past .../home.htm are to be indexed OR displayed as the main page. Basically locking out any chance of ranking the url for any search term, any weight you push it will only increase the likelihood of the paysites home.htm page turning up.

This isn't about someone taking the 'cumfiesta' search result with their cumfiesta referal code, its about taking 'blowjobs' with their referral code, a search result the paysite most likely would not attain without some proper loving. Real affiliates worked hard to get those results on these sites and they have just had it taken away.

We push as much link juice as we can to some of these sites, and we do it to make both of us money, for them to come underneath and scrape off that link juice and command it to their affiliate free pages fucking pisses me off.

I make a real decent living off of this same method today, I love to rank my referral codes for search terms, and I've got some decent ones. The thought that one of those guys would add something like this to a page to steal my traffic really gets me going.

No, we are doing it too. And no it has no effect on affiliates. You don't have the right to steal authority and get your ID plugged in for free for organic listings. Don't like it, don't promote people who do this. Nuff said.

Click around through some Nasty Dollars sites, or really, if you want to see the EFFECT that it has, SEARCH some nasty dollar sites at google.

Notice one thing, there isn't a hint of referral codes anywhere. For example, I searched their new site "hot bush" out and the paysite is 1st and 2nd. Cool enough, click the 'more results' . There is little if any affiliate links in there, and you would think, with thousands of us pointing link power at it, that there would be some.

Well, not any more. If you click through to one of those results and view source you can see the meta below, that tells google that ALL variations of that page are just copies, or lesser versions of the 'main page'. In this case, its the actual page of the site (that we can link to) but without any ref codes.

So what this does is tell them that all variations past .../home.htm are to be indexed OR displayed as the main page. Basically locking out any chance of ranking the url for any search term, any weight you push it will only increase the likelihood of the paysites home.htm page turning up.

This isn't about someone taking the 'cumfiesta' search result with their cumfiesta referal code, its about taking 'blowjobs' with their referral code, a search result the paysite most likely would not attain without some proper loving. Real affiliates worked hard to get those results on these sites and they have just had it taken away.

We push as much link juice as we can to some of these sites, and we do it to make both of us money, for them to come underneath and scrape off that link juice and command it to their affiliate free pages fucking pisses me off.

I make a real decent living off of this same method today, I love to rank my referral codes for search terms, and I've got some decent ones. The thought that one of those guys would add something like this to a page to steal my traffic really gets me going.

We push as much link juice as we can to some of these sites, and we do it to make both of us money, for them to come underneath and scrape off that link juice and command it to their affiliate free pages fucking pisses me off.
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Use custom link codes, a nollow, or both if you want to keep your link juice. If I were NastyDollars, I'd be wanting to protect my domain names and terms too. I can see both sides of the coin.

Just because Sponsor Paysite A should absolutely rank #1 for its domain or name does not mean it should rank for some irrelevant term that affiliate X may have given it via his or her ref link.

Yeah, but you have no problem whatsoever stepping on those of others via snizzshare, huh?!!
Besides, it has nothing to do with domain or terms..

I don't follow you.

Actually, yes you do. Literally at #2 for my domain name

I'm going through my list of sponsors and see which ones are doing this and who isn't, then drop the ones who are down a couple notches in my promotion.

So far, Streamate also uses the canonical tag, while Webcams.com, ImLive and AWE do not.