{"id":7109,"date":"2015-10-21T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T07:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostileblog.com\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2021-02-03T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T13:44:16","slug":"manage-affiliate-links-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/manage-affiliate-links-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Best way to manage affiliate links in WordPress without headaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
As a blogger, I’ve to use various strategies to earn money online<\/span>. I use Google<\/span> Adsense and many affiliate programs for the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You don’t have to worry about ads delivered by Google<\/span>. The entire process is automated and handled to perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Managing affiliate links<\/span> can be a headache because you’ve to be careful while using them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you link<\/span> them in your WordPress<\/span> posts in such a way that Google<\/span> can crawl them, your blog will be penalized. Matt Cutts (former webspam head at Google<\/span>) had revealed that Google<\/span> doesn’t like affiliate links<\/span>. Thus you should make them nofollow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you don’t want to use nofollow links<\/span>, the best way to manage affiliate links<\/span> is to block them with the robots.txt file<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To do this, you should use the free Gocodes plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n