Affiliate program links

[juris_l]

Hello,

I've question regarding affiliate partner generated links.Company www.example.com has a affiliate program. Partner www.example2.com links to the company site with affiliate link www.example.com/?affid=xxxx in banner, article etc. As I understand these type of links could hurt our Company site, so I asked partners to use rel="nofollow" in all links where they link to us usign ?affid=xxxx in url.

To be 100% sure that I did the right thing I decided to post here my question. Could these type of links hurt our Company site?

Regards,
Juris

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Juris,

You are fine with a rel=nofollow. Others use a hashtag, but I'm not sure this is as good a long term bet.

-Andy

[juris_l]

Hi Andy,

Thank you for fast reply.

Regards,
Juris