Clicking 1 button opens 3 links in new tabs. Is this a legitimate technique?

[lkramer]

Let's say you are an affiliate publisher with a sneaker shopping advice site and you want to provide a way for a user to click one button and see the selection of "Sneaker XYZ" on 3 different sites that you have affiliate relationships with, each site automatically opening up in a new tab. With javascript, you can do this. But is this kosher to do? Is this seen as a form of cookie stuffing or anything like that? Is this penalized by google? Blocked by ad blockers? Just curious to explore the idea. Thanks.

 

[lkramer]

P.S. Just to add, in case anyone's having trouble envisioning this, you've probably run into it on sites like Kayak where you click on a fare and it automatically opens up Expedia and Orbitz and Hotwire etc.

 

[Graybeard]

popups/popunders are bad for seo
Opening a page with a referral link will set cookies if they are used today --'cookie stuffing' is opening a site without it's contents being shown. You are showing the contents --the referral could make a purchase.

You might lose your traffic because you are a pop-up hell. People react to pops by closing them without looking a lot. If the content of the pop (modal) is useful then it may work out.

I would prefer an AJAX/xhr GET of the current selling price for the query, from 2 or 3 vendors, on the page, with each having a link with you referral code.

But you would have to program this and the selling websites would need to give you an api to query. So, it probably can't happen.