One of the primary concern of most of the Affiliate marketer
is dealing with affiliate links from SEO perspective. One major way to make
sure your affiliate site grows and doesn’t get penalized due to affiliate links
is by making sure you are adding value to your layer of content. An affiliate
site should also be promoted and maintained like any other high-quality site.
I have a Webhosting affiliate site and most of the time, I
have 1-2 affiliate links within the blog post. Somehow, with recent panda
update, traffic increased and now it’s ranking on top 10 for many of money
keyword. Lucky me, but to make sure Google doesn’t penalize me for using
affiliate links, I take care of few things, which I will discuss below after
the video.
Matt Cutts statement on Affiliate links and SEO:
Now, those who keep an eye on SEO and Google search update,
must be knowing Google’s engineer: Matt
Cutts. In recent, SEM Expo conference, Matt Cutts talked about how Google
handle affiliate links and what should we do if we are worried about such aff.
links.Though this video is short, but after the video read my technique to
avoid any SEO penalty due to affiliate links.