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Those Pesky Affiliate Links
July 27, 2008 | Tagged affiliate links, lens rank, no follow | 4 Comments
Even as someone with limited SEO knowledge, I’ve long known that Google showers down more love on sites and pages that have fewer affiliate links. Luckily, the Squidoo community is filled with many bright and experienced lensmasters and they often provide the tips I need to get me moving in a better direction. Even in cases like this, where I know in the back of my mind there is a better way to do things but in the crush of things to do I haven’t yet acted, they step in and provide tips that make it seem so easy.
Today, I’m going to be doing some lens tweaking. I ran across a blog post by Captain Squid (aka Loyalis) discussing the option of adding “no follow” to your affiliate links. Ok, now why hadn’t I thought to do this? Now I don’t know that this will make or break a lens but it certainly makes sense.
To start, I think I will just implement this on 10 lenses or so and watch them for a few weeks. Then maybe I will be able to determine whether or not any positive results are due to the “no follow” affiliate links versus the typical lensrank boost that occurs when I freshen up a lens. Time may tell.
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