How do I easily no-follow my affiliate links?
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Hi, I am in the process of setting up an affiliate marketing campaign for my site. I have done a bit of research and understand that it is safest in terms of SEO to add no-follow to the links from the affiliate sites. What is the easiest and simplest way to implement this?
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You can make the whole page nofollow by dropping this in your header:
<code><metaname="robots"content="nofollow"></metaname="robots"content="nofollow"></code>
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You can also specify no follow in the meta data, but you have to be careful with it.
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This can be done by adding rel="nofollow" to the link's HTML code. See example below-
Before: Some Link
**After: **rel="nofollow">Some Link
Depending on what kind of website you have they may give you a checkbox or ask if you "want Google to follow this link". However adding the rel="nofollow" in the HTML code is probably the most universally applicable way to nofollow a link.
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