Dont Give Your Link Juice To Your Affilates.
A simple yet affective way of saving your link juice is to “NO FOLLOW” your affiliate links and any non essential links.
Basically each time you link to an external site you are giving away some of your sites PR (page rank) as you are voting for that site by giving them a link.
If you spend a lot of time link building for your website or affiliate sites, you don’t want all your hard work to be for nothing, so here is what you need to do to ensure you are not giving away more that just a link.
An example hosting affiliate link
<a href=”http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=hostingosc” target=”_blank”>Hosting</a>
An example of the same link but with NO FOLLOW
<a href=”http://secure.hostgator.com/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=hostingosc” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank”>Hosting</a>
When using the no follow tag rel=”nofollow” visitors will still go to the site and you will make your commission, however google will not count the link as an outbound link thus saving you sites precious pagerank.
Thats smart link thinking!
Tags: Link Juice, NO FOLLOW, Outbound Links, Page Rank, Smart Linking
04.Mar.08 
Advanced SEO, SEO Basics, SEO For Blogs, Site Optimization, Wordpress 
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