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The other day I was researching a niche using a system that I haven’t posted to this website. The system involves using Squidoo. Which means that if 100% URL is taken then I won’t be allowed to use it (Hopefully you know what I‘m talking about).

Usually if the URL is take I always check the page to see if I can “claim” the lens. It’s basically a system for allowing people to use lenses that aren’t being developed.

After looking at the page I was SHOCKED to find out how amateur some people can be. The worst part about this guy is that he featured a biography claiming he was an expert internet marketer. Let me explain to you what he did.

He wrote a WONDERFUL lens that had 2000+ words, included three videos, and ton’s of pictures. The content was amazing. After looking at a lens like that you could only assume he was on the first page of Google. After searching in Google I was shocked at what I found. He wasn’t on the first, second, third, or anywhere to be found.

Automatically I knew why he wasn’t anywhere to be found. I plugged the URL into my Firefox browser and flipped on “Nodofollow.” Not a single Clickbank link had the nofollow tag on it. Immediately I lost all respect for that guy and anyone who makes this mistake. Why?

Even though Google hasn’t stated publicly they penalize web pages for using affiliate links you still have another problem. How many times do you see a Clickbank sales page on the first page of Google? Almost never. Google practically hates them.

They have low quality content, it’s only one page, and theirs tons of duplicate content. Every time you create an affiliate link you’re basically linking to duplicate content. Here’s why when you create an affiliate link it links to website.com/?hop=affiliate. That has the same content as website.com/?hop=affiliate1, website.com/?hop=affiliate2, and website.com/?hop=affiliate3. You get the point.

Linking to bad neighborhoods is one of the reasons that Google penalizes web pages! We’ve just proven that you’re automatically linking to a bad neighborhood every time you link to a Clickbank sales page. It’s just the affiliate system Clickbank uses. On top of that you’re webpage is voting in favor of another page targeting the same keywords.

Notes: If you want to maximize your rankings always put a “Nofollow” attribute on your affiliate links.