Having many outbound affiliate links on one page

[rocco1999]

I have few pages on my website where there are around 20-30 product listed with very little text and each of those have their own affiliate links(3 affiliate links per product), so around 70-80 outbound affiliate links, mostly to amazon and similar sites.

How bad is this and will this get us penalized? I have placed "nofollow" tag already on these links and I want to do 301 redirect as well but the problem is that I can't use PHP or .htaccess on this website, so I'm not sure how exactly I shold do all the redirections using HTML ?

Thanks for your answers.

[Planet13]

Well, the good news is that you probably don't have to worry about redirecting visitors because with "around 20-30 product listed with very little text" you are unlikely to have any visitors.

[EditorialGuy]

Thin affiliate pages may or may not get you penalized, but they aren't likely to please the Panda.

Google has said that affiliate links are fine, but publishers should "add value" to those affiliate links.

[rocco1999]

So is setting those links as rel="nofollow" gonna be enough to avoid this or not ?

[Richard Adams]

No, IMHO setting these to nofollow wouldn't be enough. my experience mirrors what EditorialGuy mentioned above - that you need to add *value*.

Personally I'd try adding significantly more unique content and breaking down the affiliate products into sub-pages that are more content-rich and less link-rich.

Incidentally, why are you providing 3 affiliate links per product if there's so little content?

[rocco1999]

Well, the 3 links were used to make it more user friendly. For example, link was on product image and CTA and one for trial mode link.

Adding content would seriously make the page design and in-page navigation worse, unless I would add all content at the bottom of the page, after the products area.

Also, what about redirecting links and my original question - is there a way for it without using php or htaccess?

[bumpski]

How is rocco1999 not the next Amazon?

Some clarification please?

Timing?

We don't know about visitor participation (reviews).

I visit Amazon and get frustrated with ads delaying rendering and slowing shopping in general, I have complained, YET, Amazon still ranks highly. I hope Amazon remains competitive and perhaps rocco1999 will show them and Google how to improve!