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They will still pass juice, but they will pass it to the wrong page - namely the one with the affiliate id in it. And then, you might even get a situation where that page ends up ranking in the search engines over your own. The affiliate will certainly be happy with that of course, but you probably won't be

A workaround would be to 301 redirect the user as soon as you've recorded the affiliate and they've hit that page. It's slightly less valuable than a direct link to mysite.com/product-one but it's better than a link to the affiliate page.

Really, I have no idea why anyone would block our site. I don't actually think people would block our site. But that's one of the stated metrics for the April 2011 Panda update and that affected us. After a year of trying one thing after another, this is just another thing I want to rule out. If there is something there, then I do need to try and figure out why on earth people would click that.

I'd also like to get a feel for what normal numbers are. Do competitors click on those block links? If someone clicked that link a year ago, would that still be counting against us in the algorithm? Seems like a pretty easy form of negative SEO if so. I just have zero insight into this and I don't think it would really be against Google's interest to let us know when people have blocked our pages.

With it being a factor in Panda, I would like to know what the number is and whether it's high / low compared to other sites etc. I kind of doubt a lot of people would have blocked us, but I'd like to at least be aware of whether that's a problem for us.

Any ideas on how to go about exporting indexed urls?

I have about a dozen sitemaps with a total of just over 300,000 urls in them. These have been carefully created to only select the content that I feel is above a certain threshold.

However, Google says they have only indexed 230,000 of these urls. Now I'm wondering, how can I best go about working out which URLs they haven't indexed? No errors are showing in WMT related to these pages.

I can obviously manually start hitting it, but surely there's a better way?

They will still pass juice, but they will pass it to the wrong page - namely the one with the affiliate id in it. And then, you might even get a situation where that page ends up ranking in the search engines over your own. The affiliate will certainly be happy with that of course, but you probably won't be

A workaround would be to 301 redirect the user as soon as you've recorded the affiliate and they've hit that page. It's slightly less valuable than a direct link to mysite.com/product-one but it's better than a link to the affiliate page.