Outbound links to cpaclicks.com or other CPA affiliate links... damaging?

Do you cloak/use a redirect for your affiliate links for SEO purposes?

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Linking to a spammy site from your own site damages your own sites SE rankings. Now Copeac's cpaclicks.com links have undoubtedly been used a lot by spammers, so can I therefore assume that it would be better to cloak or use a redirect for the link instead of using the code as it is on my site? The reason for not having done it yet is that I use the banner code for the impressions/clicks stats.

Should I do something about this, or is it fine the way it is? Does anyone here cloak their Copeac/other CPA links or do they paste the link as it is into their site? Please provide reasons.
 


Cloaking the link won't get rid of the click stats - As for the banner, I'm not sure if SEs even consider where your images are from, but you could either try a htaccess redirect for that, or just save the image to your own site and check impression stats from your own site.
 
hwy24 said:
use a redirect script and set your links to be nofollow.
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I didn't ask for instructions, douchebag, and I dont want to know if you simply redirect or not for any reason other than the point I raised in the thread title - I want to know if you redirect for SEO purposes. If so, please explain why you think its damaging for SEO purposes.
 
Demon said:
Linking to a spammy site from your own site damages your own sites SE rankings. Now Copeac's cpaclicks.com links have undoubtedly been used a lot by spammers, so can I therefore assume that it would be better to cloak or use a redirect for the link instead of using the code as it is on my site? The reason for not having done it yet is that I use the banner code for the impressions/clicks stats.

Should I do something about this, or is it fine the way it is? Does anyone here cloak their Copeac/other CPA links or do they paste the link as it is into their site? Please provide reasons.
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I think it's time to stop getting your SEO advice from Lee Dodd.
 
Of course you redirect, Google likes direct sellers not Aff marketers, so fucking redir them through a script and hide it from google, easy!
 
I redirect for these reasons:
hides spammy urls from users/google
allows better tracking on my sites, and to confirm ad networks numbers.
allows more dynamic forwarding

I think the tracking is more of the reason, because if your script sends 400 to an offer, and the network says 200, you know there is an issue somewhere. But then again, I have been wrong before.
 
JoeZ said:
I redirect for these reasons:
hides spammy urls from users/google
allows better tracking on my sites, and to confirm ad networks numbers.
allows more dynamic forwarding

I think the tracking is more of the reason, because if your script sends 400 to an offer, and the network says 200, you know there is an issue somewhere. But then again, I have been wrong before.
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Agreed.
 
Demon said:
Jon, it's you and two douchebags vs. a much larger majority. Are you therefore implying that all 10 who said 'Yes' are stupid asshats who get their SEO advice from Lee Dodd?
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Do I need to list some more "mirror" sites for you to access great private info?
 
Demon said:
Jon, it's you and two douchebags vs. a much larger majority. Are you therefore implying that all 10 who said 'Yes' are stupid asshats who get their SEO advice from Lee Dodd?
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It's purely tracking to be honest. Does it do any damage or kill off any TR or QS points? No, I don't think so. Maybe for a brand spankin new campain specifically on Adwords, where you are trying to get cheap non-commercial site types of clicks. Even so, why wouldn't you cloak the affiliate link to begin with? It's SO much better just for tracking purposes alone. Unless of course, you're seriously so lazy that you can't be bothered with it, in that case, perhaps you should just join the ebook crowd and market useless information products to your more naive peers.
 
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