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Affiliate program links
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Hello,
I've question regarding affiliate partner generated links.Company www.example.com has a affiliate program. Partner www.example2.com links to the company site with affiliate link www.example.com/?affid=xxxx in banner, article etc. As I understand these type of links could hurt our Company site, so I asked partners to use rel="nofollow" in all links where they link to us usign ?affid=xxxx in url.
To be 100% sure that I did the right thing I decided to post here my question. Could these type of links hurt our Company site?
Regards,
Juris -
Hi Andy,
Thank you for fast reply.
Regards,
Juris -
Hi Juris,
You are fine with a rel=nofollow. Others use a hashtag, but I'm not sure this is as good a long term bet.
-Andy
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