Maximizing Affiliate IBL Credit

**incrediblehelp** · #1 (**permalink**) 02-10-2005, 06:25 PM

I posted this intially in the Affiliate Marketing section but would like to get some opinions:

I was curious if anyone had experience in Maximizing Affiliate IBL (in-bound link) Credit through the linking methods they give their affiliates to send traffic to their website?

My question is I have some clients that have many affiliates that use text links to send traffic to them. What method of linking (that includes click and conversion tracking of course) does everyone use to make sure that they get the most credit for in-bound links from the affiliate website to boost their website's IBL and PR within the search engines?

bhartzer · #2 (**permalink**) 02-11-2005, 03:43 PM

Usually the preferred method is to use a 301 Permanent Redirect so essentially the merchant's home page gets the benefit of the links and not the affiliates.

**incrediblehelp** · #3 (**permalink**) 02-12-2005, 09:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bhartzer

Usually the preferred method is to use a 301 Permanent Redirect so essentially the merchant's home page gets the benefit of the links and not the affiliates.

Have you found that hard to implement on the affiliate side? When talking about hundreds of affiliates simply giving them a text links is much easier.