Affiliate Meta Refreshes Steal Search Engine Rankings.

Problem: Affiliates using a meta-refresh tag to redirect to your site is taged by Google as duplicate content and lists their site in the SERPs replacing your company's.

Solution 1: "Its a very complex problem with a very easy solution.

www . example.com/index.php?=affiliateID has same content as www . example.com but in the SERPs www . example.com/index.php?=affiliateID ranks higher.

Solution: Now use a redirect page such as partner.php so your affiliate link will be www . example.com/partner.php?=affiliateID

And most important insert these in the meta of partner.php




None of your affiliates will get free clicks from google or anyother SE. Difficult part is the affiliates should update the links quickly enough. IMHO give them the updated links and deactive the current links i.e. Here are the new links pls update / no commision will be paid on old links :-) "