Make affiliate links to my site on a separate domain?

reno_rita

I am working on a project that works like this: My site is brand.com. I sell some products on this site and in order to promote it I allow webmasters to signup for an affiliate program. So they can advertise my product on their websites(s) using a link with their specific tracking code. So in a nutshell, your classic affiliate program. I do not know if I should make the tracking links from my domain brand.com or perhaps create a brand new domain...

Originally asked by ClawDuda on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I have never seen any penalty in an advertiser site by doing that, but the publisher often gets a penalty when they don't use nofollow while promoting something. If your site is new, in terms of natural backlinks, then I recommended to tell your publisher to use a nofollow link when promoting . By doing that you will not get a manual penalty from Google, in case one of your competitors reports you for buying links, and when your site earns some natural links, then Google's automatic algorithm (Penguin) will not harm you because there is some portion of natural backlinks.

Full answer by Goyllo: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/100294 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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