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Hi, Thanks, I will do some testing to confirm that this behaves how I would like it to

Hi, and thanks for the response. 1. Yes they are on separate domains 2. Do you have any references or experiences to share as per the question title? I.e., what actually causes you say that this will be "ok", whereas this will "cost authority", etc. This kind of information by itself isn't much to base a strategy on...

Hi there, Any reputable affiliate should be adding nofollow to outbound links, and I would be concerned if they weren't. Even if PR isn't passed on 302s, what's stopping the affiliate from making them 301s or simply direct links in future? Blocking GoogleBot using robots.txt on landing pages isn't going to stop Google indexing URLs it finds - you would have to use canonicals or noindex on the page for that. Even that wouldn't negate the impact of inbound links from potentially "toxic" websites. I would say that you can't have your cake and eat it. If you're getting traffic and sales from these affiliate links then they're good for business. However there's a good chance if the sites are poorly regarded by Google, and they aren't using nofollow on the links that you will be penalised in organic listings. I have used affiliates in the past, and learnt to keep them on a tight leash. If you're concerned about your link profile I can recommend using cognitiveseo.com to analyse it. Regards George

Gotcha - so are you all set for now? FYI, Google will re-crawl 404s in their index even if they are no longer linked to.

PS - We are indexed, just not ranking as well as we'd like

Hi, just curious, does anyone else have any other thoughts? Thanks

Thanks Corey, appreciate the answer.

Thanks for the thoughts.

CMC is correct - thats how I do it for larger sites. delete all columns except the URL column (col A) and the duplicate pages column (now Col B) in cell C2, enter this formula:  =len(b2)  it will calculate the characters in dupe pages cell drag that cell down to last row select all three columns and sort col c by largest to smallest Obviously this isn't going to give you an exact number of dupe pages since URL text strings can vary in length, but it does give you a pretty good idea of the worst offenders....