Comments on: SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems

By: Richard Burckhardt

Richard Burckhardt — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:10:08 +0000

OK, would a 301 redirect work for an existing web site with hundreds of affiliates, say with CJ or would you need to start from scratch? Would it be possible to do a 301 redirect for Commission Junction links to gain the backlinks strength?

By: George Z

George Z — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:16:15 +0000

Greg,

I just heard you speak about this at the Chicago SES conference. You were great by the way. My question is, is it possible to do the 301 redirect with affiliate links if you are using an affiliate program such as shareasale or commissionjunchtion? Or do you have to set up your own affiliate program? I don’t really get how you take all of the dynamic parameters out of the url?

By: Catfish

Catfish — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:20:46 +0000

What’s up bro? I met you at SES 2004 San Jose. And still you are providing some of the best SEO advice. Keep up the good work. This is an outstanding article.

Ray Comstock
SEM / SEO Manager – http://www.businessol.com

By: dannomatic

dannomatic — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:24:35 +0000

Nice little mod_rewrite lesson Greg Also a nice touch on the affiliate marketing side as well.

I always thought oilman was nicer – slick dude, very dude

Let’s grab a beer next time you’re in Vancouver.

By: WebGuerrilla

WebGuerrilla — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:55:46 +0000

I learned a long time ago to never say never in this business, but I highly doubt you will see some type of algorithmic penalty for a 301. There are simply too many legitimate uses for it. Not crediting 301’s properly would have a huge (negative) impact on Google’s database.

Now emabarking on a “seek and destroy” mission targeting companies they feel are abusing 301’s is a completely different story. I can see that being a possibility.

By: Head SEO Bull

Head SEO Bull — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:09:12 +0000

Yes, but isn’t it a matter of time before the search engines will try and penalise 301’s then?
Or are they already doing it ?
I should be quite simple for them to do this I reckon. Of course I won’t explain how here

By: Nick0r

Nick0r — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:04:23 +0000

To add to my above comment, then there is Party Poker who have a ton of landing pages e.g blah.com/index.html blah.com/index025.html blah.com/index03.html and each one of these has been used by affiliates to link to their site, giving them a ton of duplicate content problems in google.

By: Nick0r

Nick0r — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:15:01 +0000

Very nice post Greg.

I’d like to point out that the best ranking poker site on the whole of the internet, pokerroom.com, uses a SEO friendly type of link (foo.com/?hi=1 type of thing) and gets full credit it for it in the search engines. That’s part of the reason they rank #1 for poker in google.

By: SEO BlackHat: Black Hat SEO Blog

SEO BlackHat: Black Hat SEO Blog — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:54:36 +0000

SEO Friendly Affiliate URL Structure

Greg Boser did a nice piece on SEO Friendly Affiliate Systems on his fledgling webguerrila blog.
Is it possible to structure an affiliate tracking system in such a way that the links used by affiliates end up helping the merchant site rank better in …