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Blocking external links in Robots.txt - need advice on Best Practice
I look after an affiliate site that is doing quite well in the search rankings. We've been doing a review of our practices and one thing that has cropped up is our robots.txt.
In it, we disallow Google from crawling external links. This used to be best practice in the affiliate industry a couple of years ago, but I wanted to know if this is still the case, and what the implications are if we were to:
a/ leave it as is?
b/ allow crawling?
Thanks in advance.
posted in Affiliate Marketing
SEO and Web Marketing Manager based in Birmingham UK with more than 6 years experience in the business. I have worked with a vast range of businesses and organisations to help them become more visible online and provide a positive user experience. After all, what is the point of increasing your websites traffic if you are not going to provide the user with something worthwhile?
Outside of work, I am a soon to be father who intends to make sure that my children are as avid Stoke City fans as I am.
