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Hey all,
I want to make sure EVERYONE is aware that you could be giving away free traffic to Rushmore Casino. The way the link code is designed on the AffiBucks website (a bit unusual according to typical HTML links), it may not work in all forums or cms systems:
They are using: < a title="title here" href="link here"..... instead of the typical: < a href="link here" title="title here"...
Because of this, in some systems (like SMF – Simple Machines Forums and who knows what else) – The banner will be displayed and the link will NOT be displayed… Therefore you are giving them free traffic if the user just types in the URL.I have had hundreds, if not thousands of views on Rushmore Casino and I have NO IDEA how many would have been actual players
Please fix this code Affibucks… I’m not going to say this was purposeful, but it is VERY suspicious that a link would be created in this manner. :nono:
Thanks for the heads up, kwblue.
Affiliate links with SEO’d title tags are counterproductive to the affiliate. Affiliate links with title tags only serve to help the casino rank higher in the serps, which can interfere with your own SEO efforts. The best thing to do is to NOT use title tags with your affiliate links — just delete them and use only the “href” portion of the link.
Alternately, you could add rel=”nofollow” to the link code, to prevent Google from passing PR to the link. I believe rel=”nofollow” is only a Google thing; I’m not sure if Yahoo or MSN pay any attention to it.
Yahoo and MSN signed up to nofollow as well. Even though Yahoo lists all the nofollow backlinks and all of them click the links they just don’t pass the juice.
thanks a lot kwblue and engineer for the info here
i have just deleted that title tag
so my link is now only the href portionHey everyone,
As Engineer mentioned below, you can simply remove the Title tag if you don’t want to use it. I’m no SEO expert, but I know enough HTML to know you never need to use a title tag if you don’t want to.
Please note, I always recommend you test your links after you place them. This is your livelihood, and you need to check that everything is intact. I am also available all the time to check your tracking, your links, and everything to make sure everything is fine.
I also am convinced that this was not done deliberately to get “free traffic”, but I will bring the matter up in my next meeting with our technical staff.
LOL well from this post I’d say ‘you better’ lol…
You’re doing good (thanks for the cheque – check in US lol) recently
Oh and I’m only kidding I know you’ll get it sorted
Geno/CC
