Re: QED: hiding affiliate links to increase Quality Score?
I have yet to see any evidence put forward, just opinions. And Google explicitly say they they don't penalize affiliates - can't find the page now. It may be the case that what a lot of affiliates do is penalized for poor user experience, but in any case an intelligent algorithm isn't going to be fooled by affiliate stratagems. Like all these links going to a redirect file, which just happens to be spider excluded - oh yeah!!.
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