Hello SEO Community!

We are launching an affiliate program and for CMS flexibility the preferred, development solution, is putting the affiliate program on a subdomain.

Financial incentive affiliate programs "don't pass link value." Lets pretend they do for this situation

Here is the example:

company website= example.com

affilate website= affiliate.example.com

Proposed affilate program:

affilate.example.com/12345 -->301 redirects --> example.com

There are multiple business services so sometimes the 301 redirect looks like this:

affilate.example.com/23457 -->301 redirects ---> example.com/busines-service-foo

affilate.example.com/23457 -->301 redirects ---> example.com/busines-service-bar

note: The business services provided are very different. As a result, these links will be placed on very different types of website. To keep contextually relevant links in the 301 redirect should the affiliate look like this?:

affilate.example.com/busines-service-foo/23457 -->301 redirects ---> example.com/busines-service-foo

affilate.example.com/busines-service-bar/23457 -->301 redirects ---> example.com/busines-service-bar

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

If anyone can point me in the direction of an ideal way to set up affiliate programs that would be great.

Especially regarding:

canonical tag, # in url, 301

Any arguments about keeping the the affiliate off a subdomain are also very welcome.

Thanks!