stopping affiliate urls from showing or hijacking in search engines

[kads]

Hi,

Basically I implemented a strategy to stop affiliate URLS for my program from showing in search engines and wondered if it was effective or could be tweaked etc. Here is what I've done:

The base affiliate url (ie the page which affiliate links direct to) is not to the homepage but at domain.com/1.htm

The 1.htm page has its meta tag set to no index, no follow. There is also a javascript code to stop the page from being framed by affiliate domains.

Is this also effective in stopping 302 hijacks of my index page? since the affiliate URL is at 1.htm and not index.htm?

Thanks in advance

[londrum]

it would make more sense to try and rank all their pages as high as possible, but maybe just change the text on them a little bit (by using the query string, or something like that to mix it up with different descriptions, titles, text etc etc).

if these pages are selling your stuff, then why fight against them?

[kads]

hi, thanks for the reply.

there were 2 reasons why i was worried:

1. about getting a duplicate content penalty.
2. if affiliates are listed in search engines, they might be able to steal my site ranking (if they use a redirect) or rank higher than me in the search engines. that wouldn't make sense.