Today I signed up for a new affiliate programme for my finance site.
However, I noted that the css for the affiliate banner looked skewed on Mozilla Firefox. That gave the impression that the affiliate programme was quite new and unprofessional.
I then thought about the afilliate banner. In fact they were cleverly getting html links with desired anchor text within it. Therefore the affiliate programme could just be a clever way to get lots of free inbound links to their site.
Therefore, I added rel=”nofollow” to all the links. This way I can test the affiliate programme without having to worry about displeasing the mighty Google for accepting paid links. (I know they are not paying for links, but, I don’t trust Google to differentiate - it can’t be easy)
- Top Tip - Always test your website in other browsers. I have been caught out myself by shockers on Internet Explorer (I mostly use a mac and Firefox )
- If their banners had not been buggy in Firefox I may not have got worried and added the ‘nofollow’ tag to all the affiliate links. The presentation of your site DOES matter. Bugs and errors say you are either 1) incompetent 2) don’t care or 3) Can’t afford to pay a proper css designer.
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