Google Panda & Effects On Affiliate Sites

[Ben-HPB]

Quick Question, We all have heard that outbound links for affiliate marketing will be filtered via Panda however how does this work when using the Google Affiliate Network URL's?

Has anyone found different signals with using Google vs. Another Network?

[fassa]

Google has a "do not be evil policy" so they do not attack competition in such ways as much as i know.

[EricaMcGillivray]

Google's affiliate program is done through their custom links which then redirect, which means they're all no-follow links. With Panda, Google's basically saying that everyone's going to be no-follow from here on out for all affiliate programs, even if they have built in no-follows or redirects that are already not passing link juice.