SEO Tips for Affiliate Website

[Aus007]

Hi all ,

I would just like to have an expert Opinion on SEO for Affiliate Website .

Basically if I list all Third party products (Amazon/Affilate Window etc ) on my website and then the customer will be redirected to the Affiliates website to make a Purchase will there be an issue with SEO (Lots of Outgoing Url's)  and Will the website not rank for Important keywords or will it be hit by any penalty ? I heard it's not good for SEO ,  any work around this ? If this is case How come cashback Sites rank well with no issues , although the concept is basically the same ?

Any Tips or Advice appreciated as how to get this done safe .

My Preferred Option would  be with Magento Shopping Cart or second option would be with Wordpress Cart only in case this provides some SEO benefits over Magento by some plugins  .

[Happy-SEO]

We have an affiliate webshop and all our outgoing links a automatically set on "nofollow", so outging affiliate links don't effect SEO rankings.

[CommT]

Yes, making the links nofollow should be implemented.

BUT... I will say that outgoing links are not generally a bad thing, unless that's all there is to the site. If all you're doing is publishing affiliate links without any content then I wouldn't expect to give up your day job any time soon to retire to the Bahamas... Affiliate sites that do well, do well because the people running them provide decent content and add value.

Just my twopenneth... I am not suggesting that this is your plan, just that that may be the reason you've heard that outgoing links are 'bad' for SEO.

In fact, Google is more likely to recrawl more often if the site is both easy to crawl and is not a dead-end (in other words a site with no links would probably not be crawled very frequently), so it could be argued that outgoing links are a good thing.

Personally, I would use magento over wordpress - it's more secure and less likely to get hacked.

I hope this makes sense! Good luck with your venture.