In search of the perfect SEO affiliate ID'd URL

[James77]

Hi,

I'm building our own affilaite system.

I want to make sure I get as much SEO benifit from affiliate links as possible so I am in search of the perfect solution.

My thoughts after doing a bit of research are to do the following - using the # as my identifier:

1/. Use an ID like www.mysite.com/#A123

2/. Redirect via 301 these urls to www.mysite.com

Any thoughts on this, or other things I should be thinking of with regard so building an affilaite system that has strong SEO benifits?

Thanks

[EricaMcGillivray]

Google Analytics will not track anything after the # in the URL. I suggest using Google's tracking tags and coming up with an internal naming system. Since your affiliates are paid, I wouldn't worry too much about them not copy tracking tags as long as you're very clear that they have to link with the very specific URL.