Affiliate marketing is one of the #1 reasons anyone starts a website so it is dis-heartening to know that search engines give a rankings slap to websites or blogs that have affiliate links in their content. Many people think that things like htaccess or php redirects hide your affiliate links from search engines and visitors but nothing could be further from the truth.

If you doubt this, go to the Hacker Target website and enter the url of a web page that has affiliate links you think are hidden. Do you think a redirect link mywebsite dot com/recommends/affiliated-website fools anyone?

Search engines are so smart today and so are most of your websites visitors. Here is how to completely hide all your affiliate links from everyone, including search engines, ...