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Originally Posted by kgun
Are you sure that you don't change the link so you don't get commission? The same applies to code from Affiliate providers that are not valid, not even well-formed.
A tiny change may be to your disadvantage. - The URL redirects you to the correct site.
- But it may not track your affiliate Id correctly.
A computer (program) is plain stupid. It does exactly what it is told to do. Read about the consequences of a, comma error:
The camelot, the straw man and the faceless community.
Syntax, sematics, imperatives and pragmatics etc. are all important in computer programs. You must decide what is most important in different situations, e.g. valid code or valid tracking. I prefer valid tracking. |
You can tell if you are getting credit for the link by looking at your stats for the affiliate program, one reason to no follow affiliate links is the fact that Google might penalize pages that have a ton of affiliate links that are followed or those that are not using redirects.
I'm not an expert on the topic, but there are some great tools and articles out there on how to run affiliate links properly so you are not penalized by the search engines.