View Full Version : A Yahoo Tip
abostonboy
03-12-2008, 06:25 PM
Since someone mentioned that they got a site w/ aff link indexed by Yahoo. Here is a little tip. Sites that use xyz.com/?=affid have a damn good chance of getting indexed by yahoo. So, when a new site comes out, give it your best shot! Yahoo will either index your affid or someones. In the past i have gotten mine indexed by putting it on my better pages. Never really tried, it just happens sometimes. As I said in the other thread Yahoo liked BostonBoyz at one time and almost anything I put on the page (when it was a PR5) got indexed pretty quickly. Worth a shot. If Yahoo doesn't index you, they will index someone else.
basschick
03-12-2008, 06:36 PM
sounds good! is there a way to make a fake xyz.com/?=affid type link?
abostonboy
03-12-2008, 06:43 PM
sounds good! is there a way to make a fake xyz.com/?=affid type link?
Not that I know of. But I am not that tech savy. Do a search for almost any Rainbow rev site and you will see an aff link indexed in yahoo.
Not that I know of. But I am not that tech savy. Do a search for almost any Rainbow rev site and you will see an aff link indexed in yahoo.
i've had a few wildcash links get top3's for some pretty good terms as well :cool:
abostonboy
03-12-2008, 07:56 PM
Just yahoo affid= and you will see tons of affiliate links indexed by yahoo.
rawTOP
03-12-2008, 07:58 PM
Can you give a concrete example of a Yahoo! search that shows this in action (the URL of the SERP would be perfect)...
Thanks.
abostonboy
03-12-2008, 08:02 PM
Sure,
yahoo cock dockers
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu_QTp9hHvVMANp5XNyoA?p=cock+docker s&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8
Second link is an affiliate link.
abostonboy
03-12-2008, 08:06 PM
Here -
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu5.fp9hHJskA.TNXNyoA?p=http%3A%2F% 2Fcockdockers.com%2Fmaintour.php%2F22938%2F120%2FA&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8
That is my aff link. It's indexed. God only knows where it shows up. But Yahoo has it indexed.
rawTOP
03-13-2008, 04:30 AM
Ah, now I see... It's a simple matter of the search engines being presented with duplicate content and picking one and you won the luck of the draw. You have two inlinks to the page (https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http%3A%2F%2Fcockdockers.com%2Ftour.ph p%2F1233%2F120%3Ajoin.html%2FA&bwm=i&bwms=p) - one from the tour page on cockdockers.com and one from another site. Neither of the links have rel="nofollow". That's pretty weak number of inlinks and I'd think someone could bump you out of position if they tried a bit.
It does have me thinking though... I always SEO the pages on my site for the branded terms of the site I'm promoting (including the domain name), and have done OK, but it's a little unpredictable.
But you're actually getting your affiliate pages on their domain to rank (as opposed to the pages on your site). That's could be a dicey game since to get your affiliate page to rank you'd need to not use rel="nofollow" which could hurt your site since you could be seen as highly commercial and linking out to "bad neighborhoods".
The fact that it only (or primarily) works in Yahooo! says a lot too. Given that Google has so much more traffic than the others, I can't see doing an optimization that could hurt me with Google to do well with Yahoo!
I know a lot of you guys run whole networks of blogs, but I'm taking the route of trying to build up an authoritative domain that's well trusted by the search engines. I know I won't rank 1 or 2 for the branded terms (that will go to the site itself), but if I can rank somewhere from 3-5 that would be great... It's happened in the past and I've made some money off it.
But I can't see not doing nofollow on affiliate links. Given how Google bitch slapped commercial links in the last PageRank update - it just seems really dangerous unless you're working with throw away domains...
dzinerbear
03-13-2008, 04:45 AM
I agree, RawTop. This just seems to be one of those anomalies that will get fixed one day. To build SEO strategies around it is just counter productive. Since the beginning of the Web and search engines marketers have been looking for the "trick" that will jettison them to the top, or get them extra traffic. Just produce a good page with a targeted keyword and original text. It doesn't get any simpler than that.
You could spend time creating a bunch of pages to take advantage of this Yahoo loophole, but in a few months when they rejig their algorithm, your pages will be useless. Why waste your time?
Michael
abostonboy
03-13-2008, 07:57 AM
I never really tried to get anything on Yahoo except link from my blogs and high PR pages (which I do anyway.) If it's a high PP page on uncut, then I will toss an uncut site up w/ a nofollow and not really care about my PR. Call me a SEO dummy, but I never used nofollow on aff links. If it happens it happens, but those type of links usually get yahooed pretty quick.