folow or no follow for affliates

[in2town]

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Can anyone let me know what is best when you have affliate programmes on your website, should we have do follow or no follow for best results with seo

[fizzbird]

Can anyone let me know what is best when you have affliate programmes on your website, should we have do follow or no follow for best results with seo

I used to say that it doesn't matter as google know what an affiliate link is and discount accordingly.
Some people say you should mask your links through a database. I agree this makes your links look nice but a cloaked link which eventually goes to Dixon's isn't kidding anyone really, is it?

However, I started a site a while ago where I take paid ads from private advertisers and also have affiliate links and pure unpaid links. in an attempt to signal which were which I started to add "nofollow" to the paid and affiliate links and left the pure links untouched.

So far, after around 6 months, I think this is working well. However, with all things Google, who knows for sure?

There is a post on Matt Cutt's blog which alludes to this. In a round about way he more or less says they don't care about paid or affilliate links so long as you don't try and pass page rank through them.

Short answer - my new 'revised' opinion is "nofollow"

[in2town]

I used to say that it doesn't matter as google know what an affiliate link is and discount accordingly.
Some people say you should mask your links through a database. I agree this makes your links look nice but a cloaked link which eventually goes to Dixon's isn't kidding anyone really, is it?

However, I started a site a while ago where I take paid ads from private advertisers and also have affiliate links and pure unpaid links. in an attempt to signal which were which I started to add "nofollow" to the paid and affiliate links and left the pure links untouched.

So far, after around 6 months, I think this is working well. However, with all things Google, who knows for sure?

There is a post on Matt Cutt's blog which alludes to this. In a round about way he more or less says they don't care about paid or affilliate links so long as you don't try and pass page rank through them.

Short answer - my new 'revised' opinion is "nofollow"

Thank you for this, this has been a great help, many thanks

[Brendon]

>> In a round about way he more or less says they don't care about paid or affilliate links so long as you don't try and pass page rank through them.

If you believe that to be the case, why would you wish to say you don't trust your merchants?

[fizzbird]

>> In a round about way he more or less says they don't care about paid or affilliate links so long as you don't try and pass page rank through them.

If you believe that to be the case, why would you wish to say you don't trust your merchants?

I'm not saying I don't trust my merchants - I just highlight who's paying and who isn't?
If you know a simple way to do this that works better then I'd like to know it?