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Is skimlinks-unlinked organic and valuable?

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LauraHT last edited by

Hi,

recently we got some editorial links on some of the articles from a few online journals and I've noticed anchor links all have these similar property within the <a>:</a> Mysite

What does the skimlinks-unlinked and data-skimwords-word means? Are these normal organic links and valuable?
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PaddyDisplays last edited by

google might recognise it as an affiliate link and therefore unnatural and so reduce or remove its seo value.
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LauraHT last edited by

Thanks I see, do those link shave any seo value?
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PaddyDisplays last edited by

Skimlinks is a automated affiliate marketing company. My first guess it whatever cms they are using (word press?) is using a plug in that automaticly put that into all there links.
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