Links on homepage

**herotozero** · 30-10-10

Hello

I have a number of direct links to retailers on my homepage. Has anyone ever been affected in their rankings because of this or dropped altogether?

Should I cloak these links or redirect them to an internal page on my site?

Many thanks

**Alfie** · 30-10-10

You say direct links, so i'm assuming not affiliate links? If so, you should be fine.

Having said that, there is a little bit of a content to links ratio that you should be aware of - I have seen pure link pages rank highly, but not for competitive terms.If you want me to take a look, send me a PM.

All the best,

Alf

**herotozero** · 31-10-10

Hi Alf,

Thanks for the reply.

I did have direct affiliate links on the homepage but I have taken them off but I had a lot more content than links (that has not improved things much right now though!) Are direct affiliate links a problem then? I dont know how sites rank so well that just have links as I work my a55 off trying to be content rich, only for a site mainly full of links jump above me!

**tochandresh** · 29-11-10

link at home page when dropped that sure have remove some content at home page after that when home page are indexed by search engine I am sure that ranking of keywords sure down because

* Some parts of content also delete
* quality of page or down