Affiliate code in urls? affiliate link landing pages?

[Mozzin]

Is it considered a good or bad practice to have the affiliate code present in your affiliate link url's ? (as opposed to disguising them with something like phpbay)

Does the general public not scour the hover-over url's of links they click?

Also, is there any way of keeping customers on site when they click affiliate links? (via frames or something more modern) Or is that frowned upon by advertisers?

[Mozzin]

no responses?

[RankMover]

Interesting question there Mozzin, I think it depends on how you are tracking the urls. I think it will also come down to the number of affiliate urls that you have coming in and also whether they are followed or no followed.

We tried to change some of these affiliate urls to no-follow and saw a bit of change in rankings following one of the Google updates to do with links. (correlation does not mean causation).

As for using iframes maybe you can take a look at this post here on Moz,

http://www.seomoz.org/q/using-iframes-for-affiliate-ads