Right Or Wrong? > Hiding Affiliate Link Codes

[pandadragon]

Hi

I use a jump script to hide my links ( well in process of converting them all ) i wondered what implications are for having the long affiliate links on sites ie.

Does google mind lots of affiliate links
Or does google prefer them hidden.

Basically i now use a jump script and have used a robots txt file to stop google picking up the php file with all the link codes in.

Whats standard practice?

I'd be grateful for any advice.

Thanks
Phil

[Chris Clarkson]

Originally Posted by pandadragon Basically i now use a jump script and have used a robots txt file to stop google picking up the php file with all the link codes in.

That's the way we always did it,

Chris C

[KirstyM]

Thats what I do also, although frustratingly Google seems determined to index all my links regardless! As far as I'm aware a lot of affiliates do this, and there's nothing to suggest Google doesn't like it.

I find it gives me huge manageability on my sites, so if anything needs changing because of situations such as merchants changing networks or re-jigging their sites I can do it in minutes rather than hours!

[pandadragon]

Hiya

Thanks for the feedback, reassuring to know im doing it right, only took me a year or 2 to find out about jump scripts !!

Kirsty have you tried a robots txt file? i made one few days ago and i tested it in google webmaster tools and it successfully blocked it from viewing my goto.php file.

Phil

[KirstyM]

Yeah... I've got one but it seems to have ignored it. I should test it though.. am off to do that forthwith!