How do I pass PR from affiliate links? - Page 2

WagerX · 07-17-2006, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Manish Pandey

Well I guess Kevin, wagerx is talking about how his site will get pr passed from other sites that are using his affiliate links?? isn't it wagerx??

I guess he is running an affiliate program and wants to know if affiliates who link from there websites to his product site will pass PR to his product page or not...

One option that i can think of is 301 redirect but it would become too painful if you have 100s of products to offer so giving 100s of afiiliate links!

But if you have only one product then that may help a lot...
Just do a 301 redirect from http://www.yoursite.com/?a=20202 to http://www.yoursite.com/ well that may give you quite a good boost in PR if your affiliates have a good PR passing page...

Hope that helped!

Manish, I am going to try to do some tests to see if I can conserve affiliate tracking and somehome a 301 redirect at the same time.. Thanks for the idea.

gfriedm1 · 07-18-2006, 07:26 AM

Wager,

Let me know how your testing goes, i would be interested in seeing the results.

EricBlackwell · 07-21-2006, 12:49 PM

WagerX;

Good thread. I am putting an affiliate program together right now and would be VERY interested to know what you find out. My sense is that Manish is correct, but what I am unsure of is the tracking of sales. It seems intuitive that the 301 works--but the idea of a RE-direct (you'd think...) would not keep the identity through to the shopping cart...

Best;
Eric

pdstein · 08-03-2006, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by EricBlackwell

It seems intuitive that the 301 works--but the idea of a RE-direct (you'd think...) would not keep the identity through to the shopping cart...

I had two ideas of how to track the visitors identity through the 301 redirect. One idea was to look at the $HTTP_REFERER variable, but unfortunately in my tests that appeard to be blank after doing a 301 redirect. My second idea was to set a cookie before doing the 301 redirect, but that didn't seem to work. So, I guess it's back to the drawing board.

gfriedm1 · 08-03-2006, 09:26 AM

so it seems that we are all a little stumped. but the real question, are we positive that affiliate IDs do not pass weight?

WagerX · 08-06-2006, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by pdstein

I had two ideas of how to track the visitors identity through the 301 redirect. One idea was to look at the $HTTP_REFERER variable, but unfortunately in my tests that appeard to be blank after doing a 301 redirect. My second idea was to set a cookie before doing the 301 redirect, but that didn't seem to work. So, I guess it's back to the drawing board.

$HTTP_REFERER could work if you knew exactly who was passing the url. I don't and most likely would really never know exactly which urls my affiliates would use. If I policed them, then I will get (1) referal leakage (2) Disgruntled affiliates accustomed to not haveing to specify the url in order the get the lead. (not sounding to good now)

I haven't had any luck with cookies get and then a 301 redirect. Then again I'm a beginner/intermediate coder.. so I could be missing something.

gfriedm1 brought up a point about evaluating whether or not it's worth it in terms of PR.

John wrote a nice article of link weight distribution.. and I think that is more of a priority in the short term..

Anyway, if anyone finds a solution please post.
Cheers!

xeno · 09-13-2006, 12:21 PM

Ive seen dynamic urls get pr, but I'm still not sure if they are passing pr. But i have seen them count in Google backlinks, so even if they are not passing pr, they are being counted by Google as a backlink, which is good in and of itself.

gfriedm1 · 09-13-2006, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by xeno

Ive seen dynamic urls get pr, but I'm still not sure if they are passing pr. But i have seen them count in Google backlinks, so even if they are not passing pr, they are being counted by Google as a backlink, which is good in and of itself.

do you have any examples of this?

linknz · 09-15-2006, 02:40 PM

Hi my search engine would ignore any affiliate links found and not score them, the same as if someone suggests a website to us and adds affiliate links to the URL they give us.
If we were to index and allow the affiliate code, then any visitors who went to the website would then earn that person a fortune and us as the search engine would get bugger all for sending the visitors.
If you check the backlinks to a website in say Googel you will notice that no affiliate based websites will show as linking to the site becuase this would make page ranking in valid.