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We have some products that we want to sell off an affiliate site.
We don't want the bots to follow the links going to the affiliate site.
We do want the bots to index the page the products are on, so we can get listed on the Search Engines.
How do we go about this?
Please respond,
Thanks
First would be to get the destination page blocked by robots.txt on their server. This might be easier said than done.
Second is to use 'rel=nofollow' in the link. This should keep most spiders from following the link, but not everybody.
Third would be to link to a page that is blocked by your robots.txt, and then have that page redirect the user to the real target. You could create a php script called redirect.php, and then block redirect.php in your robots.txt. Redirect.php would in turn do a redirect to the real landing page. That should stop most of the legitimate bots.
