Affiliate Links and SEO

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Affiliate Links and SEO
by Joost de Valk, Yoast - Tweaking Websites & The WordPress Podcast
September 29, 2010

Google will always say they won't penalize you for affiliate links per se, but for thin content around it. I can make this into a long story, but let's make it short: there's very good reasons for me and several other highly respected SEO's and affiliates around the world to think otherwise. Let me show you how to hide them.

In yesterday's WordPress Podcast, Nathan Rice of StudioPress pointed us at a new plugin they've developed called Simple URLs. It works great, and I thought I'd use it to show you how to properly hide your affiliate links from Google. First of all, install that plugin. It will create a new custom post type and after that, you can very simply add a new redirect...

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