Do you use the No Follow tag on affiliate links?
 

Hi everyone,

Quick question: Do you use the no follow tag on affiliate links on your websites?

As in: rel="nofollow"

I do.

Not sure if it helps my site overall SEO-wise but juts in case.

Some of the search engines actually rank affiliate links :2 cents:

pornhub has nofollow on all their links.

I do
No reason to give out linkjuice to sponsors unless they would pay me for it.

Thanks for that, I totally forgot to do a search - but unfortunately the views are extremely mixed :helpme

yes............

Just read my post in that thread. I'm always right.

its a question with lot of mixed answers

no, over the years I've had a couple of affiliate links picked up by SEs and that's good stuff! :pimp

sometime yes and sometimes no :)

This. I've made some pretty good coin with affiliate links that were picked up by SE's.

Even now you see your affiliate links picked up?

After Panda I haven't seen many.

I usually don't.

I just searched for a highly profitable keyword in Yahoo, there are affiliate links in 7th and 13th

It's a good seo practice to use nofollow for affiliate links, you reminded me to check some of my links :)

yap this.. before i was ranked here and there with my aff id, but nowadays nada

Not quite what you were asking but from a pay site owners point of view, it depends a lot on how you handle your affiliate links.

If your using a 3rd party biller like ccbill, then your missing out on a lot of weight with the search engines because they see it as a link to ccbill and NOT to you.

Plus most 3rd party billers wont allow any kind of mod-rewrite so you cant structure your links to be more google friendly

ie. A typical ccbill affiliate link would look something like this

refer.ccbill.com/cgi-bin/clicks.cgi?CA=914797-0000&PA=2043512

Which means nothing to google. We use something like the following:-

tacamateurs.com/refer/ID000329/CumonMarie/marie-and-two-milf-friends-movie/15660/

A lot more for google to get its teeth into