Big Affiliate Site vs. Small In House Software For Link Value
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Hi,
I have a client who sells consumer products and is interested in affiliate advertising. Of course, they can get set up with something like CJ.com. They are also interested in possibly using some third party software to take their affiliate effort in house and be able to offer publishers simple urls. The idea is that this might help the link profile for SEO as well.
Here are my questions:
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Does anybody have any experience with the complication level associated with third-party software for link value path? So, relative pluses and minuses.
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Can anyone recommend an affiiate software that is reliable and easy to use?
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Any opinion on one big site to go with... CJ, GAN, someone else?
Thanks!
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Hi,
Thanks for the message. So, really, a site that is the advertiser is not going to get link juice off of it's affiliate program even if it uses a hosted solution, instead of CJ? Thanks...
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What country is the products/services aimed at? If the UK then I would recommend affiliate window currently the largest in Europe.
Do remember most affiliates will use lots of methods to stop Google from passing any link juice because most affiliate websites are built up of links point out. So things like nofollow on every merchant link, url re-writes with a directory folder which might say 'jump' or 'out' then block this directory in the robots.txt file, along with whatever else they have going on, if you visit a voucher code website almost all of them use the above method.
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