Do affiliate links pass PR?

Looking to kill two birds with one stone...

[zomega42]

I'm setting up an affiliate program for my site, doing the code myself (not through CJ, etc). Ideally I want all of the zillions of affiliate links that will be pointing at me to raise my pagerank. The question is, will unique affiliate links that are redirected to my homepage pass pagerank?

My affiliate links will point to mydomain/link.cfm?AffiliateID=99999, which redirects to my homepage.

Am I wasting my time?

[bts111]

Yes you are. The top aff. block page rank. he he

[manwah]

yes, u are wasting time. In fact, PR should not be your only marketing objective. your affiliate program should be measured by how many profits your affiliates can make for you but how high PR you can get.

Affiliate program = a way to recruit performance based salesperson and <> link building

[martinibuster]

There's a new aff broker around that promises to pass link pop/PR to their merchants. I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot samosa.

The idea with affiliate work is to have people working for you as partners, not to abuse them to trump their efforts and take all the sales for yourself.

If you are uncomfortable sharing a slice of the profits then maybe having affiliates is not for you. What you may NEED is an aggressive link development campaign.

An affiliate relationship is about people partnering with you to mutual advantage. Has nothing to do with Link Pop/PR.

Link Development is a different issue. ;)

[edited by: martinibuster at 6:56 am (utc) on Sep. 7, 2004]

[chrisnrae]

"I want all of the zillions of affiliate links"

As a backup to what MB already said: Trust me, good affiliates are not going to be used and allow their efforts to push you to the top. Affiliates are not a link campaign. They are salespeople.

[sit2510]

Agreed with martinibuster and chrisnrae.

Who want to work with merchant that is overly competitive in obvious manner?