Hello,
I got a content website with some nice information and and some income from affiliates. This all works well, but I wonder about one technical issue, some say this is cloaking.
This is the case. For maintenance purpose I don't use the long affiliate links, but something like example.com/go-to/affiliatelink-1/.
These links got:
- 301 redirect to the affiliate link
- nofollow
- blocked in robots.txt
This way I only have to update the affiliate link in the CMS and it keeps working all around the website, instead of having to change a 100 links all the time.
Is there anything wrong with this, could Google have anything against it?
It's not that I'm trying to trick anyone, it is just a maintenance benefit.