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Originally Posted by babeterminal
so in all its a bad thing for affiliates and i see why some programs are adding it to their emailed fhgs
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My first thought is that the capture (having headers for stats) of legitimate link's sources would not endanger an affiliate's earnings. Then I thought a bit more about it ...
The other aspect is that maybe the sponsor doesn't think Google will know where his inbound marketing links are coming from (affiliate -> sponsor landing page). Sort of a soft disavow SEO trick that will not work d'oh
I would be a fool to use ref="noreferer" on the links I give affiliates -- I would mess up my stats and lower my ability to weed out links from any site that could cause fraud or damage our reputation.