Very Basic Cloaking Question

LovervsFighter

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Hi Guys and Girls,

I'll keep this very short and sweet. I've done a search of the forums and haven't been able to find a definitive answer so I'll simply ask it here:

Is cloaking and iframing harmful to SEO efforts? i.e - Can cloaking an affiliate link/banner negatively affect my search engine rankings directly?

My specific scenario:

I have a dating site and have affiliate banners within my content and on the sidebars. I'd like to cloak my affiliate links and put their landing page somewhere on my site; both of these things have been OK'ed by my affiliate manager.

After working hard to get my niche site onto Page 1 for several keywords the last thing I want to do is stuff it up by going in and doing something like this without educating myself on it first.

Any constructive feedback is welcomed.

Please note that, yes, I have done a search for this information. I found a lot of previous threads where people have just been flamed left and right and I got sick of reading what could have been helpful resources decline into a war of words.

All the best and thank you for your time!
 
Hi Guys and Girls,

I'll keep this very short and sweet. I've done a search of the forums and haven't been able to find a definitive answer so I'll simply ask it here:

Is cloaking and iframing harmful to SEO efforts? i.e - Can cloaking an affiliate link/banner negatively affect my search engine rankings directly?

My specific scenario:

I have a dating site and have affiliate banners within my content and on the sidebars. I'd like to cloak my affiliate links and put their landing page somewhere on my site; both of these things have been OK'ed by my affiliate manager.

After working hard to get my niche site onto Page 1 for several keywords the last thing I want to do is stuff it up by going in and doing something like this without educating myself on it first.

Any constructive feedback is welcomed.

Please note that, yes, I have done a search for this information. I found a lot of previous threads where people have just been flamed left and right and I got sick of reading what could have been helpful resources decline into a war of words.

All the best and thank you for your time!

I use a WP plugin called ***** Affiliate it does what you are asking.
 
Cheers for the reply.

I know how to cloak my links, I'm just more interested in whether or not people in the know consider it to be a 'dangerous practice' when it comes to getting deindexed by the search engines.
 
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