In search of the perfect SEO affiliate ID'd URL

[James77]

Hi,

I'm building an affiliate system for our website, and I obviously want to gain as much SEO benifit from it as possible.

So I am wondering what the optimal solution is with regard to how an affilaite URL is tagged.

After looking into it a bit more - I have come up with the following.

1/. Use an affilaite URL idendifier with a #
EG like www.mysite.com#123

2/. 301 redirect the affilaite URL to the "real URL"
EG www.mysite.com#123      301 ->  www.mysite.com

What do you think of this?

Thanks

[BTeubner]

I'd 301 it. I haven't tested it but it makes the most logical sense.