PHP redirect result in serp penalisation ?

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Hi,

Does anyone know if redirecting your aff links using php redirects ie.

<?php header("Location: Your AFFILIATE LINK HERE"); ?>

Will result in Google penalising your natural serps ?


Google TOS says 'dont use sneaky redirects / cloaking' & searching around I cant find any answer on this, it seems alot of people are using them but that might just be for PPC, I have some high ranking sites but I dont want to take the risk incase G sees them as sneaky & cans my SERPS.

Cheers.
 


that's not the type of redirect and cloaking Google is talking about. you should be safe to use that type of redirect just use a "nofollow" tag and stop the spiders from crawling and SE's from indexing the page through robots.txt file.
 
I have never had a problem ranking #1 for my main keywords with php redirects on homepage so i say go for it.

Peace.

Ajay.
 
Cheers Ajay, Il give it a go on one to begin with & hope for no negative effect on SERPS....

Thanks again.....



edit: Oh quick question, do you just use:

<?php header("Location: Your AFFILIATE LINK HERE"); ?>

which defaults as a 302 redirect or add extra code to define a diff redirect?

ta
 
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