Google new rule how to put no follow on ads

**lightload** · 25-10-09

Hi can anyone let me know how you make sure that an affliate programme on a page full of great articles can have a no follow put on it. I have affliate programmes with content and links that i want google to follow but i do not want them to follow the affliate programes, especially after google have now said that they will drop points on sites who have adverts on their sites that have follow links

If anyone can help on this on how i can have no follow on an affliate pgramme as well as explaining why google are now doing this then that would be great

**thebusiness** · 25-10-09

Originally Posted by lightload

google have now said that they will drop points on sites who have adverts on their sites that have follow links

Who told you that?

Google have a pretty good idea of what an affiliate ad looks like so don't worry about that. But for a regular link you can simply ad: rel="nofllow" in between the first a and href=

eg:

Code:

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.network.com/" >affiliate ad</a>

**JohnEniste** · 25-10-09

Also it's important to note that adding nofollow doesn't stop Google following the link - they will follow it. Adding nofollow only tells Google not to pass page-rank through to the site you're linking to.

I think it's good practice to put aff links in a php redirect (like go.php), "nofollow" the links to the go.php and also noindex the go.php in a robots.txt file.

...or perhaps i'm just a little paranoid

**thebusiness** · 25-10-09

Originally Posted by JohnEniste

...or perhaps i'm just a little paranoid

Slightly.

Google do actually have an affiliate network of their own so I really think it would be foolish of them to be anti-affiliate?

**DioBach** · 26-10-09

Originally Posted by thebusiness

Slightly.

Google do actually have an affiliate network of their own so I really think it would be foolish of them to be anti-affiliate?

If you think Google aren't anti-affiliate, then just do a quick google around for things like Google slap and Google thin affiliate. The fact Google have their own affiliate thing actually makes them more likely to be anti-affiliate, not less (think competition - look at google maps / shopping / etc...)