Affiliate urls and duplicate content

Memoz

Hi,

What is the best way to get around having an affiliate program, and the affiliate links on your site showing as duplicate content?

kaushalshah

May I have your URL pls ?

Memoz

Sure:

kaushalshah

In your case you have to put canonical tag on "affilaite landing page". For Example :

Landing Page for Affiliate : www.example.com/?aff_id=10

Both the pages has the same content so to come out of this you have to put below tag in affiliate landing page

rel="canonical" href="www.example.com" />

Other Solution: You can block these affiliate pages in robots.txt or by putting noindex,nofollow meta in "landing page for affiliate.

Memoz

Thanks Kaushal!

How do I put the tag in the landing page? Where exactly do I put this? I'm using Joomla

kaushalshah

There are various plugin available in Joomla for URL Canonicalization. You can try below plugin :

Memoz

Thanks so much

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