Click around through some Nasty Dollars sites, or really, if you want to see the EFFECT that it has, SEARCH some nasty dollar sites at google.
Notice one thing, there isn't a hint of referral codes anywhere. For example, I searched their new site "hot bush" out and the paysite is 1st and 2nd. Cool enough, click the '
more results' . There is little if any affiliate links in there, and you would think, with thousands of us pointing link power at it, that there would be some.
Well, not any more. If you click through to one of those results and view source you can see the meta below, that tells google that ALL variations of that page are just copies, or lesser versions of the 'main page'. In this case, its the actual page of the site (that we can link to) but without any ref codes.
Code:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.realitykings.com/hot-bush/home.htm" />
So what this does is tell them that all variations past .../home.htm are to be indexed OR displayed as the main page. Basically locking out any chance of ranking the url for any search term, any weight you push it will only increase the likelihood of the paysites home.htm page turning up.
This isn't about someone taking the 'cumfiesta' search result with their cumfiesta referal code, its about taking 'blowjobs' with their referral code, a search result the paysite most likely would not attain without some proper loving. Real affiliates worked hard to get those results on these sites and they have just had it taken away.
We push as much link juice as we can to some of these sites, and we do it to make both of us money, for them to come underneath and scrape off that link juice and command it to their affiliate free pages fucking pisses me off.
I make a real decent living off of this same method today, I love to rank my referral codes for search terms, and I've got some decent ones. The thought that one of those guys would add something like this to a page to steal my traffic really gets me going.