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[geskim0]

hi all,

i would like to know if a one way link for domain www.xxxxxx.com counts if there are links through the sites affiliate system the point to www.xxxxxx.com/ref/sales.php?ref=yyy

It is interesting to know because there are a lot of affiliates that could procude a one way linking towards me.

Thanks and i am looking for your answers
Cheers

[Jill]

Welcome geskim0!

The link would count as a backwards link to the URL in question:

www.xxxxxx.com/ref/sales.php?ref=yyy

[Shane]

geskim0, to have affiliate links count as links to your main domain, you'll need to do a 301 redirect after you record the affiliate information.

Like this:
1. User requests www.xxxxxx.com/ref/sales.php?ref=yyy
2. Your code records "yyy" as the affiliate ID (in whatever manner you do that).
3. Your code issues a 301 redirect to www.xxxxxx.com

[geskim0]

thanks for all teh fast reply first of all and hy to you all.

Shane this is the same situation if the affiliate program is on a diffrent domani ( but hosted on teh same server ) ?

[Shane]

Yes, should be the same thing.

[Michael Martinez]

geskim0, to have affiliate links count as links to your main domain, you'll need to do a 301 redirect after you record the affiliate information.

Like this:
1. User requests www.xxxxxx.com/ref/sales.php?ref=yyy

If the link is embedded on the affiliate site in this form, in a typical static HTML link, it doesn't need to be redirected to count.

It may or may not be counted, depending on whether the search engine filters that particular affiliate program.

If the inbound link is being discounted, then redirection won't help you.

[Jill]

If the link is embedded on the affiliate site in this form, in a typical static HTML link, it doesn't need to be redirected to count.

Right, but it will only count towards the link pop of that specific URL. Which isn't going to do any good.

[geskim0]

How can i tell is a search engine is not taking in consideration that affiliate website ? Is there are way to view this ?

thanks

[Jill]

Is the page where that link is on, cached by Google? If so, then they know about it.

[geskim0]

yes it is. I think that i did not explain wright.
Michael Martinez said
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It may or may not be counted, depending on whether the search engine filters that particular affiliate program.

If the inbound link is being discounted, then redirection won't help you.
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and i was wondering is i could see if it can count as a link to my site or not.

[Shane]

I definitely counts as a link to your site, but not a link to your homepage. It's counts as a link to www.xxxxxx.com/ref/sales.php?ref=yyy, specifically, which is probably not what you want.

[geskim0]

yes. i do not what that. I would want to make it point to my homepage. Is any way of doing it . Does the 301 match this . I underline that after the user clicks there a cookie is set and then the user is redirected to the homepage.

Thanks

[Michael Martinez]

Right, but it will only count towards the link pop of that specific URL.  Which isn't going to do any good.

If site A links to site B/page.html and site B wants link popularity for B/otherpage.html, site B has to live with the fact that it cannot do anything with redirection to guarantee a transfer of popularity.

This "fix" is thrown out so frequently and so casually today that people don't stop to consider that Google is still being widely criticized for not dealing with the issue.

It should not be proposed as a working solution because it will only work with the search engines that follow the path.

When they're all on board and doing the same thing, everyone can relax and we won't see me making cautionary followups.

[Shane]

Yep, my instructions make the link count as a link to your homepage as much as possible (since not all engines will catch it right away or at all). It's the best method I've ever seen with affiliate links.

[Michael Martinez]

I'll agree with you on that, Shane.