Direct links from affiliates

[dogian]

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Hi everyone

Has anyone had any experience or success at getting affiliate networks to have affiliates link directly to your site to increase PageRank and search engine rankings?

[Kandevil]

Not sure if that is what it is all about is it?

[stevenm]

Well said Ian. Nope it certainly isn't what it is all about and most affiliates I know would not be happy to do this. To be honest, if this was the case most affiliates I know would use rel="nofollow" to get the search engines to disregard the link and try to ensure you got as little benefit from it as possible.

Steven

[Brendon]

There are a couple of networks with the technical capability to do this, but you shouldn't run an affiliate program to improve your organic SEO. If you want to run the 2 projects concurrently, that's fine, but they should be 2 separate projects.

>> rel="nofollow" to get the search engines to disregard the link

If only...

[dogian]

Thanks for your comments, I didn't think I'd get a positive response! We already run a successful affiliate program through a couple of networks, and I just thought it would be good to make more of those inbound links. I can understand why affiliates wouldn't go for it though, even if we offered higher commissions for doing so.