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I have a 6 page sales pitch that the spiders seem to enjoy. I am expanding my business so that I can add affiliates which can point to my pitch and get credit for sales. I am designing a system in which affiliates will point to page 1 of the sales pitch.
The inbound link urls will point to:
www.mydomain.com/salespage1_af001.html --- Affiliate 1
www.mydomain.com/salespage1_af002.html --- Affiliate 2 ... etc.
I am using mod_rewrite to create variables for mysql... salespage.php?page=1&aff_id=001
An affiliate_id cookie will be set by salespage1 which will cause the content of salespage1, and the following 5 sales pages to be surrounded by custom borders and logos for each affiliate company.
The following sales pages will be:
mydomain.com/salespage2.html ... mydomain.com/salespage3.html ... etc. The custom logo and borders on these pages will be activated by the cookie containing the affiliate id.
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I believe that spiders will not accept cookies, so they will not see the custom borders and logo... instead, they will see my borders and logo.
If I have 200 affiliates pointing to my site, the spiders will see 200 inbound links pointing to 200 apparently identical pages (sales pitch page 1).
Will I make the spiders angry if I use <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"> only on salespage1 to prevent them from storing 200 duplicate pages? Will these still count as inbound links?
Thanks
