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We have a website running on apache/php where we let affiliate sites link to us. This is achieved by adding an affiliate id to the URL they use to point to us:
[foo.com...]
The problem is that the SEs are sometimes listing the URL with the affiliate id instead of the regular URL, [foo.com...]
Does anyone have any ideas about how we can retain this functionality while keeping the partner URL out of the search engine indexes?
Thanks.
disallow these kind of links in your robots.txt and hope se-spiders won't index it. add also meta-tags not to index that page. without the querystring, allow it to be indexed.
i would even think your affiliate is cheating on you because he/she let's the spiders index their affiliate link(s). this is a no-go for an affiliate program.
