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!
