Ads at the top of the page

[PeterM22]

hi mozzers,

I have a website made in dreamweaver. Right at the very top of all of my pages is a text advert with a link to an affiliate in the ad.

This link is very lucrative and gets a lot of sales, but i'm concerned it may have some negatives from an SEO perspective.

As it's the first text on every page, i'm guessing bots will read it first. Could this potentially cause problems?

If so, is there a best practice that would allow me to keep it there and keep the bots happy?

Cheers,

Peter

[IM_Learner]

URL? But it would be a good thing if you place a nofollow tag on the affiliate's link or put the affiliate links in an iframe and make the border zero.

[EGOL]

Yes, if it is text I would nofollow right away!

[AlanMosley]

I would not have it at the toop of my code, you can put it lower in the code but position it absolutly at the top.

[PeterM22]

I'll definately nofollow the affiliate link right away. I'd not though about absolute position, that sounds like a great work around! Do you think thats the best way to do it?