google following affiliate links

does it or not?

[dougs]

Happy New Year

Does google follow affiliate links. The reason I ask is that I have just used the link comman on google and found a site with a large number of links. On following some of these links I found they are all affiliate links

Doug

[edited by: NFFC at 12:04 am (utc) on Jan. 3, 2003]
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[jamesyap]

Yes, google follow redirect links, so did affiliate links such as CJ.

[dougs]

Thanks James

[jamesyap]

TIPS: if an affiliate link redirect to the advertiser with something at the back (final url you see after all redirect)-

youradvertiser.com?aid=44455&pid=44551

then this redirect will unable to pass the PR vote to the site. because the final destination is not youradvertiser.com

[dougs]

The link in question is via <snip>, so it does not even mention the "real" web site, but google lists several sites linked.

Doug

[edited by: NFFC at 12:04 am (utc) on Jan. 3, 2003]
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[jayq]

I actually made a client over $300,000 a month by not having to pay out affiate links that where listed above the actual site.

The affiliate that had the most hardcoded links to the sponsor's site was coming up #1 for searches the site. The guy who owned the site said Google was "caching the sponsor code". I re-thought it and found that the affialate the had the largest numer of links wuith the right text was coming up #1 because google was following the links and finding www.sponsor.com/affiliate_code and actaully finding a page and indexing it that ranked higher than the root of the domain, because site that reley on affialte traffic don't have many links to the root generally.

I suggested a "noindex" on the sticky pages and a couple extra hardlinks to the root - a month later, the root was at #1 and the affialate was no happy- I'm sure - lol.

[jamesyap]

I do a check after the dance and surprise to find that affiliate link doesn't included in the backlink list anymore, at least it is true for the most popular affilite links - CJ.

Now my question rise, do redirect links that uses, CGI/Perl, PHP and ASP pass PR and included in the backlinks?