Affiliate Links & SEO
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Hi
Looking at my backlink profile I noticed that I had 150 links coming from one site.
Ahhhh I thought in light if the recent Penguin updates.
Upon closer inspection I noticed that my link is only on the homepage of that site but because that site sells its product via clickbank they have got loads of versions of that site because of its affiliates. For example:
MAINSITE is www.mainsite.com
then there are 150 affiliates using hoplinks via clickbank so its:
etc etc
The question:
Will this hurt me? In theory I got 1 link on their homepage but will Google see it as 150 versions of the same site?
Your thoughts please?
SMP
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I agree with Francisco that you should check whether it's a nofollow link or not.
If it is then you should be fine.If not you might want to consider disavowing those links with Google's Link Disavowel tool.
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Check the source code to see if it's a nofollow. If it is, then there is no need for concern. If it is a follow link, hopefully it's from a reputable website.
I probably wouldn't worry about it too much because all the affiliates are duplicate content and G probably would devalue those pages. Now if you were getting 1000s of links, I would be concerned. But 1st check the source code. All advertorials should have a nofollow. Watch this video o Matt Cutts talking about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SmlsfSqmOw
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