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Last time I had noticed a bug with “related:” link to which GG replied that he would show it to the right engineers [webmasterworld.com...]
Though I don’t see that bug anymore this time around, here is an another one – I type in MyUrl.com, check cache using Google toolbar, what I get is my affiliate redirected sub-domain URL :(
E.g. keyword.affiliateURL.com
<Frustration> I use cache: command and get the same result </Frustration>
I know there would be hundreds who will have opinions that I am wrong and the affiliate site is wrong, but only considers these points:
1) A merchant has no control how an affiliate links to the site. (E.g. the above mention uses affiliate links using a sub domain and a refresh tag.)
2) If this would have caused a problem then I would have suffered in all SE’s – av aj ::f etc.
How does this affect my ranking?
1) Keyword.affiliateURL.com is displayed against keywords for which my homepage is optimized and where my homepage was displayed earlier.
2) Business suffers, as now I have to pay 20% as affiliate commission for all the converted SE traffic - which I use to get for free earlier
3) ODP description is not displayed for keyword.affiliateURL.com as not obviously not listed in ODP
Please help!