Best Nofollow Practice Facing +500 instances of affiliate links
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Hi.
I have a set of affiliate links on my website. That's 50 unique links in total. They are placed in a separate folder /go/, and are all nofollowed.
My website has 100 pages. When doing a site audit I get a report with 50 affiliate links pr. page x100. That's a huge report.
Is this really necessary? I can ofc. choose to ignore the automated reports, but I can't help but to think that there must be an easier way to keep track of it?
Like, if Link 1-50 is located in /go/, they should automatically be nofollowed, regardless of where they are located on the root/sub domain.
Bonus question: The format of the link is https://exampledomain.com/go/brandname
I am wondering if I should add that "/" at the end of it. If yes, why? If no, why?
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Thank you, Nigel Carr!
My first reaction looking at your answer was "No, wait.. you got it wrong", then I realized the beauty of it's simplicity. You're right. Simple does it
Have a good weekend!
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Hi Dan
You could just add a no follow to teh /go folder in robots.txt. Then they will just be ignored.
Regards
Nigel
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