How do I pass PR from affiliate links?

WagerX · 07-08-2006, 07:59 AM

I understand that if I have an affiliate link like www.mysite.com?af=8 that is doesn't pass PR to www.mysite.com right?
If that's the case how could I set up an affiliate program referals that will pass PR?

options? setting up undividual subdomains for each affiliate not feasable.

lol or am I just out of luck?

joew · 07-08-2006, 12:00 PM

I asked the same question here a coupl o weeks ago. Everybody was in the opinion that www.mysite.com?af=8 does pass PR to www.mysite.com.

I changed my affiliate software to support that kind of links and I will have results for you in a week or two.

Webfu · 07-09-2006, 12:39 AM

Could you track each affiliate in a separate folder ? All the sales that happen for affiliate 666189 happen in a specific directory.

yoursite.com/66189

You could pass along some good PR to a root folder like that.

WagerX · 07-11-2006, 04:03 PM

Webfu,
I don't think it would be reasable for me, and even if I did.. the PR would be directed towards the subfolders per affiliate.

Affiliates come and go.. and the amount of time put into each one has to be reasonable..
Anyway, thanks for the ideas.

bcombs · 07-11-2006, 06:18 PM

Could you track the affiliates using referring URLs rather than tracking URLs?

gfriedm1 · 07-12-2006, 07:55 AM

i have been thinking the same thing and have made this post before. I have no found a solution to this problem. Not long ago my affiliate links were hosted at a random address. as in http://w213125243.com/af=324234. then i changed it so all of the links are like this http://www.mysite.com/af=21309. still have not seen any change in the SERPs for this.

further more, who cares about passing PR. the more important thing is rankings. in that case, i have found that it has not helped me.

dciseo · 07-13-2006, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by WagerX

I understand that if I have an affiliate link like www.mysite.com?af=8 that is doesn't pass PR to www.mysite.com right?
If that's the case how could I set up an affiliate program referals that will pass PR?

options? setting up undividual subdomains for each affiliate not feasable.

lol or am I just out of luck?

Hi,

Do not try to pass PR from your affiliate, try to get PR from external links, add one-way related links

gfriedm1 · 07-13-2006, 06:24 AM

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Originally Posted by dciseo

Hi,

Do not try to pass PR from your affiliate, try to get PR from external links, add one-way related links

whether or not he is trying, doesn't matter. he was wondering if the affiliate links help his site. Often times when i find a related site i have to decided whether i would have them as an affiliate or a link partner.

GeXus · 07-14-2006, 11:44 AM

Maybe you could use mod_rewrite so all affiliate links are directories.. yoursite.com/12345, then have those directories redirect to your main page using a 301 redirect...

sixty6 · 07-15-2006, 07:10 PM

Ok, I'm pretty sure this isn't the exact thing you're talking about, but if I have a link on my website to asite.com like:

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http://www.asite.com/link.php?action=out&id=63

Will the PR still pass to his website?

KevinJB · 07-15-2006, 07:40 PM

I think if it 301 redirects it will.

sixty6 · 07-16-2006, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by KevinJB

I think if it 301 redirects it will.

Well 301 redirects pass PR if the link giving it ALREADY has a PR..

KevinJB · 07-16-2006, 02:03 PM

Exactly.

sixty6 · 07-16-2006, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by KevinJB

Exactly.

Oh I get it now

KevinJB · 07-16-2006, 03:26 PM

I'm assuming you are using PHP so just store whatever information about the affiliate you need to and then redirect them

free_training · 07-16-2006, 03:50 PM

I thought that if there was a "?"in the url it would not pass it at all. I thought you had to make sure that the affiliate program had seo friendly links?

Manish Pandey · 07-16-2006, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by KevinJB

I think if it 301 redirects it will.

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!

KevinJB · 07-16-2006, 05:45 PM

Which is basically what I already reccomended.

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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!

Hence the dynamic URL.

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I thought that if there was a "?"in the url it would not pass it at all. I thought you had to make sure that the affiliate program had seo friendly links?

No, otherwise billions of sites would not be indexed.

gfriedm1 · 07-17-2006, 07:06 AM

if you use a 301 redirect, how would you track these visitors on your site? you would be able to see where they come from, but how do you know if they are going to make a purchase?

also, does using a 301 redirect, pass PR onto the redirect site?? anyone have an example of this tested that they can show? or is it all just theory at this point?

KevinJB · 07-17-2006, 07:53 AM

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if you use a 301 redirect, how would you track these visitors on your site? you would be able to see where they come from, but how do you know if they are going to make a purchase?

With the dynamic URL.

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also, does using a 301 redirect, pass PR onto the redirect site?? anyone have an example of this tested that they can show? or is it all just theory at this point?

Pretty much everything to do with Pagerank is theory. But yes, that is the consensus among most at the moment.