Google ranking via Affiliates

[gilkesy]

Hi all

Its been sometime since I last posted here and in the meantime I have seen some considerable improvement in my sites' ranking with Google. :-)

I just want to know what the deal is with Google rankings and affiliate schemes.

The last time I looked into this, I remember being told that affiliate schemes dont really help with Google rankings. Is this still the consensus?

I currently use ASP.net to drive my server side pages and all affiliates enter my site using a URL like this:

http://www.abc.co.uk/affiliate.aspx?id=xyz

Is there a better way to work this?

Thanks

[brian.mark]

It depends on what you're doing with the visitors once they click there. If you leave the query string on the site, that's not going to help. If you set a cookie, then 301 redirect them to the true landing page, that can help quite a bit, depending on the text they used to link to you.

So, how are you handling it?

Brian.

[gilkesy]

When a user clicks into the site, then a session variable (cookie) is created. The user is then redirected to a specific page by the script (not a 301).

Not sure how I could integrate a 301 redirect into the script.

[gilkesy]

OK, I've just had a look in Google and found how to cause a 301 redirect with ASP.

http://www.seoconsultants.com/tips/asp/301.asp

I can use this method to redirect users to the correct page.

Thanks!