Best Referral Linking Strategy For SEO?

Reefer

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• Jun 19, 2010

• #1

I am going to launch a membership site soon and will have a referral program (refer a friend, get x).

Now, how should I structure the links so that I get the most for seo?

Should I like to index with variables?
e.g. site.com/?ref=28174

or a separate page, mod_rewritten which then forwards to the homepage
e.g. site.com/join/28174 ---> redirects to homepage

or this there another better structure?

 

pk_69

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• Jun 20, 2010

• #2

there is no difference, as long as you capture id either method will work.

if you do redirect ref ID wouldn't stay on the address bar, but again you can use redirect with both methods you mentioned

pk

 

Reefer

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I ended up doing site.com/?3423, i set a cookie and redirect to site.com via php. I think this is the best way to go.

 

ozzke

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• Jun 20, 2010

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they would all work, although for some reason I can not explain I would go for :e.g. site.com/join/28174 ---> redirects to homepage
as long as the redirect is almost instant.

 

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seopro1

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• Jun 21, 2010

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You should always try to remove special characters such as ?. Although probably not a big deal as many sites use them.

 

Reefer

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ozzke said:

they would all work, although for some reason I can not explain I would go for :e.g. site.com/join/28174 ---> redirects to homepage
as long as the redirect is almost instant.

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Its a 301 redirect... set cookie and redirect page. So technically all juice should get passed to homepage.

seopro1 said:

You should always try to remove special characters such as ?. Although probably not a big deal as many sites use them.

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Yeah I heard that too but then you look at sites like ezinearticles and wonder how true it is.