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Originally Posted by JoshGirls Josh
dropping in to ask rookie question. why would an affiliate want to set pages to nofollow on search engines? if you put up a blog or FHG with your link code, wouldnt getting the content onto google rankings be a good thing?
thanks in advance. i just want to better understand the needs of affiliates...
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It's highly unlikely in 2013 that an affiliate will get a linkcode indexed at the top of the Google results. It can still happen but it's very rare. What is much more likely is that the affiliate will get penalized by Google Panda or Penguin for having many dofollow sponsor links. It's possible the sponsor could get penalized for it too. I know of the opposite case outside of the industry where a sponsor was demanding that affiliates make the links nofollow because they were afraid of penalties.