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Placement of affiliate links in blog posts questions

madmadness

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Hey team,

So I plan to place images that link to my affiliate offer throughout my blog post and am just wondering if doing this can affect the SEO of the blog post at all?
 
It's always a good practice to use a redirect or javascript to hide your links. Here's Google's John Mueller statement on the topic:
“As far as I know we don’t explicitly go into the site and say well there are links that look like affiliate links therefore we will treat this website as being lower quality.
In general, the main issues that I see with regards to affiliate websites is that they tend to just be lower quality websites.
So it’s not so much a matter of where the check out flow is but rather that overall the content is often kind of low quality and because of the low quality content that’s something that our algorithms might pick up on and say this is probably not the most relevant result to show in the search results.”
So they do identify affiliate links and in my opinion take them in consideration in ranking, especially on sensitive topics like health.
 
If it's a new site then Google can identify it as a low quality affiliate site. With aged domain and 10+dr nothing with happen.
 
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