Yakezie.com - Topic: Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 Van Beek on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/page-2/#p61860 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/page-2/#p61860 This was helpful. I found this post by searching the forum for "do follow no follow".

I was looking for the answer to the question if Yakezie members white-list each other on their blogs.

My original setting at my blog was just that everything was no-follow except my own sites.

After reading all this here, I have changed that. Now the default setting is do-follow and I have just "black-listed" the social media sites.

]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:59:36 +0000 TightFistedMiser on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/page-2/#p29733 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/page-2/#p29733 Invest It Wisely said:

I personally find it unethical if a site intentionally tries to deceive me that a link is not an affiliate when it is, such as say the link appears as "www.amazon.com/book" when it really has an affiliate tag. I also believe it goes against the terms of service of some affiliate providers.

 

I have no idea if it's considered black hat to do this or not, though. I think there's a middle ground like the /go that I've seen on other sites, which is clearly affiliate link though does not display the actual referral code.

 

TightFistedMiser said:

Hiding affiliate links is not black hat.  There are several good reasons to do so. The biggest reason is to keep people from stealing.  Also some people won't click on an affiliate link that looks like an affiliate link but they will click on a cloaked link.  Some people think that Google penalizes you if you have too many affiliate links on your site.  I'm skeptical of that but it is another possible reason to hide your links.

The /go type links are the ones I was referring to.  I'm not sure if I would consider the other type unethical or not but I suppose if one is trying to deceive it is probably unethical.  I mainly use Java for my links which makes it harder for people to steal your commissions but I don't think they are deceiving anyone.  Since it doesn't cost anyone to click on an affiliate link I don't really understand why some people are so against clicking on them.

]]> Fri, 08 Jul 2011 11:20:52 +0000 Money Reasons on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/page-2/#p29654 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/page-2/#p29654 I didn't know that the "no follow" clause means I don't trust a site.

 

I've seen a few yakezie members and yakezie challengers use that "rel statement" to keep their internal juice strong.  I wonder if when they do that it hurts the site they are linking to?

 

Kind of funny doing a "best links", then using the "no follow" to say I don't trust these sites (lol).  That said, I didn't know that it could hurt a site either…

 

JT, thanks for the lesson!

 

]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:49:02 +0000 Invest It Wisely on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/page-2/#p29604 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/page-2/#p29604 It's a term for general SEO stuff that is unethical or will otherwise get you into trouble with the search engines. One example of this is sending one page to a search engine robot, and sending an entirely different page to a regular visitor. Other examples include hiding content from the search engines that is displayed to regular visitors, or engaging in other practices like stuffing your page with keywords but making them the same color as the background, or things like that...

 

I am not an SEO expert either so maybe someone like JT could come in and give us his thoughts. :)

 

KNS Financial said:

What exactly does "black hat" mean? Apparently it is something bad, but I really don't know what that is.

]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:02:00 +0000 Khaleef @ KNS Financial on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/page-2/#p29602 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/page-2/#p29602 What exactly does "black hat" mean? Apparently it is something bad, but I really don't know what that is.

]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:56:52 +0000 Invest It Wisely on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29556 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29556 I personally find it unethical if a site intentionally tries to deceive me that a link is not an affiliate when it is, such as say the link appears as "www.amazon.com/book" when it really has an affiliate tag. I also believe it goes against the terms of service of some affiliate providers.

 

I have no idea if it's considered black hat to do this or not, though. I think there's a middle ground like the /go that I've seen on other sites, which is clearly affiliate link though does not display the actual referral code.

 

TightFistedMiser said:

Hiding affiliate links is not black hat.  There are several good reasons to do so. The biggest reason is to keep people from stealing.  Also some people won't click on an affiliate link that looks like an affiliate link but they will click on a cloaked link.  Some people think that Google penalizes you if you have too many affiliate links on your site.  I'm skeptical of that but it is another possible reason to hide your links.

]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:55:37 +0000 TightFistedMiser on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29545 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29545 Hiding affiliate links is not black hat.  There are several good reasons to do so. The biggest reason is to keep people from stealing.  Also some people won't click on an affiliate link that looks like an affiliate link but they will click on a cloaked link.  Some people think that Google penalizes you if you have too many affiliate links on your site.  I'm skeptical of that but it is another possible reason to hide your links.

]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:35:20 +0000 Invest It Wisely on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29528 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29528 Ah ok I got you. I don't have any of tthese sort of links. All of my affiliate programs currently link to the actual product, with a referral tag at the end or something like that. What you're saying makes sense and in that case I would probably put the nofollow.

 

Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:

Kevin, The affiliate links are not your links OR the product's direct link. For example if you are linking to mint.com the affiliate link will not be mint.com, it will be linkshare.com/blah or tracklink.com/abcd.. why would you want to give your link love to linkshare or commisionjunction or flexoffers...whoever you are using? If the product is useful and you link it to mint.com, then I don't think you have to do anything specific, it is the middleman's link everyone is talking about.

]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 08:57:45 +0000 Suba @ Wealth Informatics on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29457 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29457 Kevin, The affiliate links are not your links OR the product's direct link. For example if you are linking to mint.com the affiliate link will not be mint.com, it will be linkshare.com/blah or tracklink.com/abcd.. why would you want to give your link love to linkshare or commisionjunction or flexoffers...whoever you are using? If the product is useful and you link it to mint.com, then I don't think you have to do anything specific, it is the middleman's link everyone is talking about.

]]> Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:38:18 +0000 Invest It Wisely on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29426 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29426 What does hiding affiliate links mean? That sounds like something kind of black hat. I've heard of people no-following them but personally I'm going to leave them the way they are. The way I see it I add an affiliate link because I think it's something valuable, not just cause I want people to click so I can get a few cents. I'd link to many of these products even without the affiliate.

]]> Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:03:52 +0000 Forest Parks on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29124 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p29124 Interesting indeed!!! I don't think I ever nofollow affiliate links on purpose!

]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:45:59 +0000 Khaleef @ KNS Financial on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p28688 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p28688 Jeffrey Trull said:

From a post on Smart Passive Income, you should no-follow the following:

 

  • All affiliate links you use; each and every one of them (Although he later brings up “hiding” affiliate links as a better option).
  • The links to your RSS feeds, twittercounter, and all social links should be nofollowed too.
  • The privacy policy link in the footer of the site should be nofollowed except on the homepage.

Here's the full story: smartpassiveincome.com/seo-mistakes/

Thanks for posting that link. I was guilty of a few of those mistakes!

]]> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:13:23 +0000 Jeffrey Trull on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p28666 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p28666 From a post on Smart Passive Income, you should no-follow the following:

 

  • All affiliate links you use; each and every one of them (Although he later brings up “hiding” affiliate links as a better option).
  • The links to your RSS feeds, twittercounter, and all social links should be nofollowed too.
  • The privacy policy link in the footer of the site should be nofollowed except on the homepage.

Here's the full story: smartpassiveincome.com/seo-mistakes/

]]> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:03:14 +0000 Khaleef @ KNS Financial on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p28469 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p28469 I never had any link juice, so I never had to worry about it. Wink

]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:35:41 +0000 Buy Like Buffett on Follow Or No Follow https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p28451 Help Desk https://yakezie.com/forums/help-desk/follow-or-no-follow/#p28451 Kevin, I think so too. It is to be stingy with passing on any link juice to other sites.

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