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Hi Yannick, thank's for replying to my question. I came up with similar conclusions and this was actually the reason for posting this question. I am sure that it's a piece a cake for Google to distinguish affiliated links from standard links and I see a logical reason behind putting different value on those, but I was hopping that somebody would speak from experience, e.g. tested both kinds of links and knows what difference in strength they carry.