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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

It can definately help if you get links from high authority domains if its done in a non spammy way to a domain with some authority. If you blast out hundreds using automated software to a brand new domain, it's less likely to be effective.

very helpful thanks!

Hi mozzers,

For my website I use various affiliate programs on commission junction. Some of the text ads are in javascript. Will google read the text ads or not?

Cheers,

Peter

How old is your site? Sometimes new sites fluctuate all over the place, including the homepage.

thanks everyone, very helpful indeed!

Hi mozzers,

Anyone know how to do a yahoo search to return results that meet have a specific URL

For example, say I wanted to search for the keyword finance and I only wanted it to return results with the word "business" anywhere in the URL.

I have done in the past, but I just cant remember how to do it!

Thanks

maybe 5-10 per week. In my view 5 high quality links are worth more than 1000 spammy links. Spammy links often won't even still be there in a years time.

Thanks for the reply Frank. I thought there wern't any videos when I first looked, thanks for clearing that up

I'll go and watch the videos now.

hi frank,

THanks for such an indepth reply. If I cant get a link of the page in question, what do you think to the idea of looking at a link pages PA and the number of outgoing links on the link page?

If you use the link LAA to do a google search for directories to submit to, is there any correlation to how high they show up on google and how much they will help your site?

Peter

yeah, that was the question Thanks for your answer

If its a new site and you want it to rank well in the long term, I'd just build a few high quality links per week.

On my homepage, I currently link to about 40 internal pages. I'm considering altering the internal linking structure to have 50-100 links on the 2nd level pages. If I was to do this, I'd only need 8 homepage links.

Do you think the 8 pages linked from the homepage would go up in the SERPs as the pagerank would be less diluted?

I've heard so many mixed views on this. Be interested to see what people here think.

Thanks,

Pete

I have been doing a little bit of testing in regards to blog commenting on high authority blogs that no follow comments. The comments have all been manual and added value to the blog. I have noticed quite a big jump in rankings for some keywords. I was wondering if anyone else has a view on the effectiveness of these links when combined with other link building methods?

1000-2000 dollars a month.

Is anyone aware of any high quality link building services, preferably that guarentee a set number of high quality links for a montly fee. I'm familar with webuildpages. I was wondering if there are any other companies who provide a similar service.

it could but that the ose bot hasnt crawled the link so isn't showing any pa yet. maybe it will in the next update.

In short, Yes it can have an effect on your SEO. You may find it more difficult to show up on google.co.uk, even if you have a .co.uk domain name if you use a US host!