I have a website which has been online for almost 8yrs. It holds top spots for almost all of the "big number" search terms. I'm no giant but I operate in a very tightly focused niche. I get about 400 uniques a day which is large for strictly "organic only" traffic in this niche.

The products are expensive $150 to $2K per item and all in between.

I'm tired of the site and the time it consumes. Stock prices are way to expensive to risk buying, since it's a fast paced niche with new upgrades and stuff becoming obsolete - hate to get stuck with $10k of junk that I can't sell in a month from now!

I affiliated with the largest company that also sells my product line along with 10's of thousands of related items. When I go out of stock and the manufacturer who dropships for me now, runs out, or stops stocking a product - this company always has it.

Today I put up about 10 links "Purchase the XYZ" (anchor text) where the order button was and it's an affiliate link with a "no-follow" attribute in the link. Anything the customer buys after entering the site and being cookied, I will get a comission on.

1. Will this harm my organic search results that I currently enjoy?

2. If I add more of these will it harm my organic results? I plan to have about 25 - 30 outbound affiliate links with "no-follow" for a 280 page website.

3. Can I independantly track my link? - I had an email (lost it) offering a tracking software for outbound affiliate links - sound possible, or do I take their word for it?

Thanks for reading this long post but I'm new to this and don't want to screw things up. I'm hoping for some advice from you experienced guys in affiliation and SEO too.

Thanks again!