Webdetective - 2:45 pm on Jun 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

My site is almost ready for another reinclusion request, except I am unsure about one last detail, affiliate links. I and many other people are unclear about Yahoo's policy towards affiliate links.

For many years, I have been using simple redirects to affiliate links, by adding something like Redirect /affiliatelink https:...affiliate link... to my .htaccess file, instead of using a direct affiliate link. A redirected link can be changed in an instant for the entire site, instead of having to be updated individually, as affiliate links do change. I experimented with hosting a copy of the affiliate sales page on my site which I am authorized to do (with a robots.txt exclusion) as an alternative to this technique, but maybe this is a bad idea. I guess it's a question of which technique is more ok with Yahoo.