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Bingo - I agree Joe! To me it looks like the way LinkedIn built this, it's not even a no-follow link.

If anyone else knows of any LinkedIn strategy, I'd love to hear more.

What is GTW?

Hi

So, on Linkedin, I can put my company website.  I've been trying to figure out if this is a nofollow, or do follow - or, not even really a link.

Here's how it appears in my profile's source code

Websites

• <a target="_blank" <strong="">href="/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaxvape%2Ecom&urlhash=MtlQ&trk=ppro_website">Company Website</a>

Is this even a "link"?  I'm guessing the way it is built, no it's not even a nofollow link.

Secondly, does anyone know any good link-juice you can get form Linkedin.

Thanks!

We are an ecommerce site...

In days gone by, having a bunch of footer links with your top products / categories was a good idea - as it created a ton of internal links to these products.

Now, I am hearing that those links "dilute" the value of our other links on a page - and essentially, there is more harm than good from these.

Does anyone know what I am talking about (the olds days) and should we still be doing this?

Thanks

I've been doing affiliate marketing since 2000 - when it really was a good solution for banner space (those things that used to get clicks) from smaller publishers long before a thing called Google came around.

Now, candidly, I see it mostly as a pathway for parasitic marketing - with little to no benefit to you.

Coupon and deal-site Affiliates will bid on your trademarks (even if you prohibit it) - and fight for your own organic SEO.  Now, depending on what you sell, you might like getting a bunch of traffic from someone like retail-me-not, but keep track of how many customers are 'new' versus saw your coupon box and search for a coupon - used it for a discount, and then you paid a commission for that sale...?

For us, we do it - but we try to focus on review sites; odd-sites where you never know where the traffic comes from; and then yes, discount and coupon sites - because we get more new customers than for what we eat on customers (I call it "round-tripping") being on your site, finding a discount code box, and then searching the web for a deal.

We really like YotPo - for a few reasons.  As an e-commerce site, submitting reviews by customers can be a hassle - as most "native" review systems require the customer to come to your site, login, and then write the review.  YotPo has a a really cool system where they send the emails and those emails are so special, the customer need only write the review IN THE EMAIL they are looking at - not sure how this works technically - but YotPo will get you a lot more reviews than any native ecommerce system.

In our experience, YotPo does require tech-saavy integration to get the full features.  One of these is to allow for crawl-able reviews.  IT IS DO-ABLE, but you need to look for their advanced integration instructions.  This has something to do with the review content being seen by google as being on 3rd party site, and thus not part of your site.  Trust me, you CAN fix this with Yotpo.

I do hope this is helpful.