Do affiliate links to Amazon product pages boost those pages in the SERPs?
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From casual observation, I believe that affiliate links to Amazon product pages, move those Amazon pages up in the SERPs.
Does anyone else have an opinion on this?
Philosophically, I think that affiliate links should not be counted in the rankings, even if they have not been nofollowed. I think that Google and other search engines should be filtering these links because they are compensated.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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I totally agree with you that affiliate links should not help rankings and many mention that they should always be nofollowed, though a lot of people don't (I probably have some followed affiliate links out there somewhere on the Internet).
Philosophically I am opposed to affiliate links helping the target site rank. I've also seen some sites get into trouble for having affiliates link with followed links, so I'd be careful of it myself if i was running an affiliate program.
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