Affiliate Links in Content and How Should We Manage Them in 2016?

[karldkpm]

Hi,

Just a quick question. How should we deal with affiliate links in content in 2016?

Should we add the rel="nofollow" to affiliate links still or is this no longer necessary? Whats the best way to handle affiliate links in blog post content and the best way to disclose your affiliate relationship to your readers?

Thank you in advance.

 

[karldkpm]

There's nothing wrong with affiliate marketing and therefore affiliate links are OK also in 2016 and 2017.

However the most important thing is and always will be that you offer quality and relevant content to your visitors. Once you are able to satisfy their expectations or - even better - to solve their problems, no one will have a problem, if you disclose your affiliate partnerships

The nofollow value was only begun to indicate search engine crawlers not to rank external links as backlinks for the targeted sites. It's only preventative to avoid ranking manipulations by so called "link spammers" - and yep, it's still good to use the nofollow instruction in its both ways, the hyperlinks and the meta tags of each page

Thank you for the response. I see so much conflicting information about it that it is great to get such a clear answer. Again, thanks so much!