bretheartbobby

Hello Forum,

I like to hear your opinion about this:

I have a website with only (unique, my own, not copied) information about certain topics and products.
My site ranks well for my targeted keywords and I am satisfied with the traffic. Also my PR ranking is steady for the last 4 years.

I also use Adwords because I use affiliate links to 'sell' products from others, which works pretty well. My total traffic is about 60% organic and 40% Adwords.
When I send a potential customer to a affiliate product I use a redirect URL (metarefresh) but in such way that in the HTML link-tag I use the rel="no follow" tag and in the metatag of that page I use the NoFollow, NoIndex tag.
My question is, will Google see this URL as a redirect or not (because it is not following the URL, which I don't want).

I also use some affiliate redirects in my .htaccess file, which results in a 301 redirect. But using this type of redirect is, I think, also not allowed according to the 'clean' Webmasters Guidelines rolleyes.gif

The reason I use these redirects is that I hate those long '&' and '?' and long numbers URLs.

What is your opinion about this?

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